The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline

*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION*<br/><br/>‘A Great American Novel in the guise of a Great Nonfiction Epic, The Unwinding asks…do we truly like the world we have made for ourselves?’ The Times<br/><br/>America is in crisis.<br/><br/>In the space of a generation the country has become divided between winners and losers, with its political system on the verge of breakdown and its people adrift amongst failing institutions.<br/><br/>In The Unwinding, George Packer tells the human story of America’s vertiginous collapse. Dean Price is a sustainability evangelist in the rural South; Tammy Thomas, a factory worker trying to survive the collapse of the Rust Belt; Jeff Connaughton, a political careerist in Washington, and Peter Thiel, a controversial Silicon Valley billionaire. Journeying across three decades, Packer weaves the stories of these four Americans together to paint a rich, complex and compelling portrait of contemporary America as it stands at this, its most pivotal moment.<br/><br/>‘Hums - with sorrow, with outrage and with compassion... Close to a non-fiction masterpiece’ The New York Times