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As george packer writes in the unwinding, a gripping narrative survey of contemporary america, the hartzells were estranged from their surviving relatives, most of whom were heavy drinkers. Packers history of america in the last thirty years intertwines individual stories with larger social currents. Packers book is nonfiction, and his obscure americans are real people tammy thomas, a laidoff factory worker in the midwest. The book uses biographies of individual americans as a means of discussing important forces in american history from 1978 to 2012, including the subprime mortgage crisis, the decline of american manufacturing, and the influence of money on politics. Spanning three decades, its a history of disassemblage, a chronicle of a nation where the structures that. A few pages into george packers the unwinding, i was reminded of the closing scene in touch of evil, the last hollywood movie orson welles directed and. An inner history of the new america, has many of the qualities of an epic novel. George packers new book is about this missing america. George packer is a staff writer for the new yorker and most recently the author of the unwinding. The unwinding by george packer george packers the unwinding explores the social and economic upheavals that have transformed the u. The 2005 book by the new yorker journalist george packer on the iraq war, the assassins gate, was rightly acclaimed for its evenhanded. The unwinding an inner history of the new america by george packer farrar, straus and giroux. The unwinding is the right title for george packers epic, sad and unsettling history of the last four decades in the us. The 20 national book award winnera new york times bestsellerselected by.