The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America By: George Packer

Author: George Packer
Narrated by: Robert Fass

National Book Award, Nonfiction, 2013

A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation. American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward. In The Unwinding, George Packer, author of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, tells the story of the United States over the past three decades in an utterly original way, with his characteristically sharp eye for detail and gift for weaving together complex narratives.

The Unwinding journeys through the lives of several Americans, including Dean Price, the son of tobacco farmers, who becomes an evangelist for a new economy in the rural South; Tammy Thomas, a factory worker in the Rust Belt trying to survive the collapse of her city; Jeff Connaughton, a Washington insider oscillating between political idealism and the lure of organized money; and Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire who questions the Internet’s significance and arrives at a radical vision of the future.

Packer interweaves these intimate stories with biographical sketches of the era’s leading public figures, from Newt Gingrich to Jay-Z, and collages made from newspaper headlines, advertising slogans, and song lyrics that capture the flow of events and their undercurrents. The Unwinding 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. Packer’s novelistic and kaleidoscopic history of the new America is his most ambitious work to date. Includes bonus content read by the author.

288K	The Unwinding - 001 - The Unwinding   The Unwinding.mp3
2.5M	The Unwinding - 002 - The Unwinding   Prologue.mp3
1.3M	The Unwinding - 003 - The Unwinding   Part I   1978.mp3
12M	The Unwinding - 004 - The Unwinding   Part I   Dean Price.mp3
11M	The Unwinding - 005 - The Unwinding   Part I   Newt Gingrich.mp3
11M	The Unwinding - 006 - The Unwinding   Part I   Jeff Connaughton.mp3
1.5M	The Unwinding - 007 - The Unwinding   Part I   1984.mp3
13M	The Unwinding - 008 - The Unwinding   Part I   Tammy Thomas Part 1.mp3
12M	The Unwinding - 009 - The Unwinding   Part I   Tammy Thomas Part 2.mp3
6.2M	The Unwinding - 010 - The Unwinding   Part I   Oprah Winfrey.mp3
8.7M	The Unwinding - 011 - The Unwinding   Part I   Jeff Connaughton.mp3
1.2M	The Unwinding - 012 - The Unwinding   Part I   1987.mp3
6.8M	The Unwinding - 013 - The Unwinding   Part I   Raymond Carver.mp3
15M	The Unwinding - 014 - The Unwinding   Part I   Dean Price.mp3
13M	The Unwinding - 015 - The Unwinding   Part I   Tammy Thomas.mp3
7.0M	The Unwinding - 016 - The Unwinding   Part I   Sam Walton.mp3
1.2M	The Unwinding - 017 - The Unwinding   Part I   1994.mp3
13M	The Unwinding - 018 - The Unwinding   Part I   Jeff Connaughton.mp3
13M	The Unwinding - 019 - The Unwinding   Part I   Silicon Valley Part 1.mp3
8.3M	The Unwinding - 020 - The Unwinding   Part I   Silicon Valley Part 2.mp3
1.3M	The Unwinding - 021 - The Unwinding   Part I   1999.mp3
12M	The Unwinding - 022 - The Unwinding   Part I   Dean Price.mp3
6.2M	The Unwinding - 023 - The Unwinding   Part I   Tammy Thomas.mp3
1.4M	The Unwinding - 024 - The Unwinding   Part I   2003.mp3
6.7M	The Unwinding - 025 - The Unwinding   Part I   Colin Powell.mp3
11M	The Unwinding - 026 - The Unwinding   Part I   Jeff Connaughton.mp3
12M	The Unwinding - 027 - The Unwinding   Part II   Dean Price.mp3
6.5M	The Unwinding - 028 - The Unwinding   Part II   Alice Waters.mp3
15M	The Unwinding - 029 - The Unwinding   Part II   Tampa Part 1.mp3
9.7M	The Unwinding - 030 - The Unwinding   Part II   Tampa Part 2.mp3
9.0M	The Unwinding - 031 - The Unwinding   Part II   Silicon Valley.mp3
1.4M	The Unwinding - 032 - The Unwinding   Part II   2008.mp3
9.4M	The Unwinding - 033 - The Unwinding   Part II   Robert Rubin.mp3
4.8M	The Unwinding - 034 - The Unwinding   Part II   Jeff Connaughton.mp3
12M	The Unwinding - 035 - The Unwinding   Part II   Tammy Thomas.mp3
15M	The Unwinding - 036 - The Unwinding   Part II   Dean Price.mp3
8.3M	The Unwinding - 037 - The Unwinding   Part II   Jay Z.mp3
11M	The Unwinding - 038 - The Unwinding   Part II   Tampa Part 1.mp3
13M	The Unwinding - 039 - The Unwinding   Part II   Tampa Part 2.mp3
6.7M	The Unwinding - 040 - The Unwinding   Part III   Jeff Connaughton Part 1.mp3
15M	The Unwinding - 041 - The Unwinding   Part III   Jeff Connaughton Part 2.mp3
1.4M	The Unwinding - 042 - The Unwinding   Part III   2010.mp3
7.7M	The Unwinding - 043 - The Unwinding   Part III   Andrew Breitbart.mp3
15M	The Unwinding - 044 - The Unwinding   Part III   Tampa.mp3
14M	The Unwinding - 045 - The Unwinding   Part III   Dean Price.mp3
8.8M	The Unwinding - 046 - The Unwinding   Part III   Tammy Thomas.mp3
14M	The Unwinding - 047 - The Unwinding   Part III   Tampa.mp3
7.1M	The Unwinding - 048 - The Unwinding   Part III   Elizabeth Warren.mp3
12M	The Unwinding - 049 - The Unwinding   Part III   Wall Street Part 1.mp3
11M	The Unwinding - 050 - The Unwinding   Part III   Wall Street Part 2.mp3
12M	The Unwinding - 051 - The Unwinding   Part III   Wall Street Part 3.mp3
1.4M	The Unwinding - 052 - The Unwinding   Part III   2012.mp3
14M	The Unwinding - 053 - The Unwinding   Part III   Silicon Valley Part 1.mp3
7.9M	The Unwinding - 054 - The Unwinding   Part III   Silicon Valley Part 2.mp3
1.5M	The Unwinding - 055 - The Unwinding   Part III   Jeff Connaughton.mp3
9.1M	The Unwinding - 056 - The Unwinding   Part III   Tampa.mp3
6.9M	The Unwinding - 057 - The Unwinding   Part III   Tammy Thomas.mp3
9.0M	The Unwinding - 058 - The Unwinding   Part III   Dean Price Part 1.mp3
13M	The Unwinding - 059 - The Unwinding   Part III   Dean Price Part 2.mp3
348K	The Unwinding - 060 - The Unwinding   Credits.mp3
497M	total