THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A sweeping and brilliant portrait'
GUARDIAN 'A reportorial tour de force ... Heart-rending, appalling
and hard to put down' JANE MAYER 'Visionary in scope, compassionate
in procedure ... Definitive' AYAD AKHTAR Evan Osnos moved to
Washington, DC, in 2013 after a decade away from the United States.
While abroad, he often found himself making a case for America,
urging the citizens of Egypt, Iraq or China to trust that even
though America had made grave mistakes throughout its history, it
aspired to some foundational moral commitments - the rule of law,
the power of truth, the right of equal opportunity for all. But
when he returned to the United States, he found each of these
principles under assault. In search of an explanation for the
crisis, he focused on three places he knew firsthand: Greenwich,
Connecticut; Clarksburg, West Virginia; and Chicago, Illinois.
Reported over the course of six years, Wildland follows ordinary
individuals as they navigate the varied landscapes of
twenty-first-century America. Through their powerful, often
poignant stories, Osnos traces the sources of America's political
dissolution. He finds answers in the rightward shift of the
financial elite in Greenwich; in the collapse of social
infrastructure and possibility in Clarksburg; and in the compounded
effects of segregation and violence in Chicago. The truth about the
state of the nation may be found not in the slogans of political
leaders but in the intricate details of individual lives, and in
the hidden connections between them. A dramatic, prescient
examination of seismic changes in American politics and culture,
Wildland is the story of a crucible, a period bounded by two shocks
to America's psyche, two assaults on the country's sense of itself:
the attacks of September 11 in 2001 and the storming of the US
Capitol on January 6, 2021. Following the lives of everyday
Americans in three cities across two decades, Osnos illuminates the
country in a startling light, revealing how it lost the moral
confidence to see itself as larger than the sum of its parts.
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