Janesville: An American Story-Fast Shipping

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Title: Janesville: An American Story

Author: Amy Goldstein

ISBN: 9781501102233

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Published: 2017

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Edition: First Edition

Number of Pages: 368

Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

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* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year *
Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize *
800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year
* A New York Times Notable Book
* A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017 * An Economist Best Book of 2017 * A Business Insider Best Book of 2017 *
“Moving and magnificently well-researched…Janesville joins a growing family of books about the evisceration of the working class in the United States. What sets it apart is the sophistication of its storytelling and analysis.” —The New York TimesA Washington Post reporter’s intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors’ assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin–Paul Ryan’s hometown–and a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle class. This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills–but it’s not the familiar tale. Most observers record the immediate shock of vanished jobs, but few stay around long enough to notice what happens next, when a community with a can-do spirit tries to pick itself Prize winner Amy Goldstein has spent years immersed in Janesville, Wisconsin where the nation’s oldest operating General Motors plant shut down in the midst of the Great Recession, two days before Christmas of 2008. Now, with intelligence, sympathy, and insight into what connects and divides people in an era of economic upheaval, she makes one of America’s biggest political issues human. Her reporting takes the reader deep into the lives of autoworkers, educators, bankers, politicians, and job re-trainers to show why it’s so hard in the twenty-first century to recreate a healthy, prosperous working this is not just a Janesville story or a Midwestern story. It’s an American story.