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P&P Live! Evan Osnos | WILDLAND: The Making of America's Fury
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November 5, 2021
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1:01:42Now PlayingPolitics and Prose, Books & Books, and Harvard Bookstore are excited to host New Yorker staff writer and CNN contributor, Evan Osnos, for a discussion of his latest book.
After a decade abroad, the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States—Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL—to illuminate the origins of America’s political fury
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In search of an explanation for the crisis that reached an unsettling crescendo in 2020—a year of pandemic, civil unrest, and political turmoil—Osnos focused on three places he knew firsthand: Greenwich, Connecticut; Clarksburg, West Virginia; and Chicago, Illinois. Reported over the course of six years, Wildland follows ordinary individuals as they navigate the varied landscapes of twenty-first-century America. Through their powerful, often poignant stories, Osnos traces the sources of America’s political dissolution. He finds answers in the rightward shift of the financial elite in Greenwich; in the collapse of social infrastructure and possibility in Clarksburg; and in the compounded effects of segregation and violence in Chicago. The truth about the state of the nation may be found not in the slogans of political leaders but in the intricate details of individual lives, and in the hidden connections between them. As Wildland weaves in and out of these personal stories, events in Washington occasionally intrude, like flames licking up on the horizon.
Osnos is in conversation with Jiayang Fan, a staff writer at the New Yorker. She is at work on her first book, Motherland, to be published by FSG in 2023.
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