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Last Best Hope: the Revival of America
de Packer, George
- Nuevo
- Estado
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0374603669
- ISBN 13
- 9780374603663
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Brooklyn, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Farrar, Straus and Giroux. New. New George Packer is an award-winning author and staff writer at The Atlantic His previous books include The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (winner of the National Book Award), The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, and Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (winner of the Hitchens Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography) He is also the author of two novels and a play, and the editor of a two-volume edition of the essays of George Orwell
In the year 2020, Americans suffered one rude blow after another to their health, livelihoods, and collective self-esteem A ruthless pandemic, an inept and malign government response, polarizing protests, and an election marred by conspiracy theories left many citizens in despair about their country and its democratic experiment With pitiless precision, the year exposed the nation's underlying conditions?discredited elites, weakened institutions, blatant inequalities?and how difficult they are to remedy
In Last Best Hope, George Packer traces the shocks back to their sources He explores the four narratives that now dominate American life: Free America, which imagines a nation of separate individuals and serves the interests of corporations and the wealthy; Smart America, the world view of Silicon Valley and the professional elite; Real America, the white Christian nationalism of the heartland; and Just America, which sees citizens as members of identity groups that inflict or suffer oppression
In lively and biting prose, Packer shows that none of these narratives can sustain a democracy To point a more hopeful way forward, he looks for a common American identity and finds it in the passion for equality?the "hidden code"?that Americans of diverse persuasions have held for centuries Today, we are challenged again to fight for equality and renew what Alexis de Tocqueville called "the art" of self-government In its strong voice and trenchant analysis, Last Best Hope is an essential contribution to the literature of national renewal
In the year 2020, Americans suffered one rude blow after another to their health, livelihoods, and collective self-esteem A ruthless pandemic, an inept and malign government response, polarizing protests, and an election marred by conspiracy theories left many citizens in despair about their country and its democratic experiment With pitiless precision, the year exposed the nation's underlying conditions?discredited elites, weakened institutions, blatant inequalities?and how difficult they are to remedy
In Last Best Hope, George Packer traces the shocks back to their sources He explores the four narratives that now dominate American life: Free America, which imagines a nation of separate individuals and serves the interests of corporations and the wealthy; Smart America, the world view of Silicon Valley and the professional elite; Real America, the white Christian nationalism of the heartland; and Just America, which sees citizens as members of identity groups that inflict or suffer oppression
In lively and biting prose, Packer shows that none of these narratives can sustain a democracy To point a more hopeful way forward, he looks for a common American identity and finds it in the passion for equality?the "hidden code"?that Americans of diverse persuasions have held for centuries Today, we are challenged again to fight for equality and renew what Alexis de Tocqueville called "the art" of self-government In its strong voice and trenchant analysis, Last Best Hope is an essential contribution to the literature of national renewal
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- Last Best Hope: the Revival of America
- Autor
- Packer, George
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo New
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- ISBN 10
- 0374603669
- ISBN 13
- 9780374603663
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- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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