Title: The Unwinding
Description: 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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Crises, Celebrities, Politicians, Social problems, Social conditions, Biography, History, United states, history, 1969-, United states, social conditions, 1980-, United states, biography, United states, politics and government, 1989-, Politicians, united states, nyt:paperback-nonfiction=2014-03-23, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2013-06-09
Places: United States
Time periods: 1989-, 1969-, 1980-