02742cam a2200409 i 4500 330794726 TxAuBib 20130723120000.0 130215s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013004431 9780374102418 hardcover 0374102414 hardcover (OCoLC)812252804 DLC eng rda DLC IG# BTCTA BDX OCLCO UPZ YDXCP ABG CDX BWX KAA IAK OCLCQ VP@ YBM MOF TxAuBib rda Packer, George, 1960- The unwinding : an inner history of the new America / George Packer. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. viii, 434 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-434). Part I. 1978 -- Dean Price -- Total War : Newt Gingrich -- Jeff Connaughton -- 1984 -- Tammy Thomas -- Her Own : Oprah Winfrey -- Jeff Connaughton -- 1987 -- Craftsman : Raymond Carver -- Dean Price -- Tammy Thomas -- Mr. Sam : Sam Walton --1994 -- Jeff Connaughton -- Silicon Valley -- 1999 -- Dean Price -- Tammy Thomas -- 2003 -- Institution Man (1) : Colin Powell -- Jeff Connaughton -- Part II. Dean Price -- Radish queen : Alice Waters -- Tampa -- Silicon Valley -- 2008 -- Institution Man (2) : Robert Rubin -- Jeff Connaughton -- Tammy Thomas -- Dean Price -- Just business : Jay-Z -- Tampa -- Part III. Jeff Connaughton -- 2010 -- Citizen journalist : Andrew Breitbart -- Tampa -- Dean Price -- Tammy Thomas -- Tampa -- Prairie populist : Elizabeth Warren -- Wall Street -- 2012 -- Silicon Valley -- Jeff Connaughton -- Tampa -- Tammy Thomas -- Dean Price. Through an examination of the lives of several Americans and leading public figures over the past three decades, Packer portrays a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer elite, its institutions no longer working, its ordinary people left to improvise their own schemes for success and salvation. 20140412. A copy presented to the Douglas County Library System in memory of John Warden. Social problems United States. Crises United States. Politicians United States Biography. Celebrities United States Biography. United States History 1969- United States Social conditions 1980- United States Biography. United States Politics and government 1989- https://www.utoledo.edu/library/tech/CarlJosephBookplate.pdf