Wildland
The Making of America's Fury
Book • 2021
Wildland is a richly reported and beautifully written book that chronicles two decades of American anger, fury, and political dysfunction.
Evan Osnos focuses on three places he knew firsthand—Greenwich, Connecticut; Clarksburg, West Virginia; and Chicago, Illinois—to illuminate the origins of America’s political fury.
The book follows ordinary individuals as they navigate the varied landscapes of twenty-first-century America, tracing the rightward shift of the financial elite in Greenwich, the collapse of social infrastructure in Clarksburg, and the compounded effects of segregation and violence in Chicago.
It reveals how the country lost its moral confidence to see itself as larger than the sum of its parts, bounded by two shocks to America’s psyche: the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the storming of the U.S.
Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Evan Osnos focuses on three places he knew firsthand—Greenwich, Connecticut; Clarksburg, West Virginia; and Chicago, Illinois—to illuminate the origins of America’s political fury.
The book follows ordinary individuals as they navigate the varied landscapes of twenty-first-century America, tracing the rightward shift of the financial elite in Greenwich, the collapse of social infrastructure in Clarksburg, and the compounded effects of segregation and violence in Chicago.
It reveals how the country lost its moral confidence to see itself as larger than the sum of its parts, bounded by two shocks to America’s psyche: the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the storming of the U.S.
Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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