Glass Home: The 1% Economic system and the Shattering of the All-American City

For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Personal Land

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The Wall Avenue Journal: “A devastating portrait…For anybody questioning why swing-state America voted in opposition to the institution in 2016, Mr. Alexander provides loads of solutions.”

Laura Miller, Slate: “This e book hunts larger sport. Reads like an odd?and oddly satisfying?fusion of George Packer’s The Unwinding and one among Michael Lewis’ real-life monetary thrillers.”

The New Yorker : “Does a outstanding job.”

Beth Macy, writer of Manufacturing facility Man: “This e book ought to be required studying for individuals making an attempt to know Trumpism, inequality, and the unhappy state of a needlessly wrecked rural America. I want I had written it.”

In 1947, Forbes journal declared Lancaster, Ohio the epitome of the all-American city. Right this moment it’s broken, discouraged, and preventing for its future. In Glass Home, journalist Brian Alexander makes use of the story of 1 city to point out how seeds sown 35 years in the past have sprouted to provide us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding nationwide cohesion.

The Anchor Hocking Glass Firm, as soon as the world’s largest maker of glass tableware, was the bottom on which Lancaster’s society was constructed. As Glass Home unfolds, chapter looms. With entry to the corporate and its leaders, and Lancaster’s residents, Alexander exhibits how monetary engineering took maintain within the Nineteen Eighties, accelerated within the twenty first Century, and wrecked the corporate. We observe CEO Sam Solomon, an African-American main the almost all-white city’s largest personal employer, as he tries to rescue the corporate from the New York personal fairness agency that employed him. In the meantime, Alexander goes behind the scenes, entwined with the lives of residents as they wrestle with heroin, politics, high-interest lenders, low wage jobs, expertise, and the brand new calls for of American life: individuals like Brian Gossett, the fourth technology to work at Anchor Hocking; Joe Piccolo, first-time director of the annual music competition who discovers the city depends on him, and it, for salvation; Jason Roach, who police believed could have been Lancaster’s largest drug supplier; and Eric Brown, an area soccer hero-turned-cop who comes to comprehend that he can by no means arrest Lancaster’s actual issues.