{"id":3716,"date":"2013-11-22T10:41:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T15:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:09","slug":"storybook-plutocracy-thomas-frank-reviews-george-packers-the-unwinding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/22\/storybook-plutocracy-thomas-frank-reviews-george-packers-the-unwinding\/","title":{"rendered":"Storybook Plutocracy: Thomas Frank reviews George Packer&#8217;s &#8216;The Unwinding&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/nonfiction\/storybook-plutocracy\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/3f306d3b-00b3-4b43-baa6-631e09ef8598.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Thomas Frank (Harper&#8217;s, Founder of The Baffler) says this in reviewing George Packer&#8217;s National Book Award-winning book <em>The Unwinding<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">George Packer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <i>The Unwinding<\/i> is a minor masterpiece of the social-disintegration genre\u00e2\u20ac\u201da beautifully written, clinically observed story of the slow-rolling economic transformation that has, over the last 30-odd years, made vast parts of America into a destitute wasteland while lifting a fortunate few to a kind of heaven on earth&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/nonfiction\/storybook-plutocracy\">Public Books \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Storybook Plutocracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Frank reviews George Packer&#8217;s National Book Award-winning book The Unwinding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[872,861,874,871,873],"class_list":["post-3716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-book-review","tag-george-packer","tag-public-culture","tag-the-unwinding","tag-thomas-frank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3723,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions\/3723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}