Janesville: An American Story

Janesville: An American Story

* 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 *

â€œMoving 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.â€ â€”The New York Times

A Washington Post reporterâ€™s intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motorsâ€™ assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsinâ€”Paul Ryanâ€™s hometownâ€”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 stillsâ€”but itâ€™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 up.

Pulitzer Prize winner Amy Goldstein has spent years immersed in Janesville, Wisconsin where the nationâ€™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 Americaâ€™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 itâ€™s so hard in the twenty-first century to recreate a healthy, prosperous working class.

For this is not just a Janesville story or a Midwestern story. Itâ€™s an American story.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781501102233
ReleaseDate 2017-04-18
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781501102233

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781501102233
ReleaseDate	2017-04-18
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781501102233

Janesville: An American Story

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