{"product_id":"books-glass-house-by-brian-alexander","title":"Glass House","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of \u003ci\u003eHillbilly Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStrangers in Their Own Land\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE OHIOANA BOOK AWARDS AND THE 87TH CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS - NAMED A BEST\/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e - \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e - The Week \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e- \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e - \u003c\/i\u003eBooks by the Banks Book Festival\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal: \u003c\/i\u003eA devastating portrait...For anyone wondering why swing-state America voted against the establishment in 2016, Mr. Alexander supplies plenty of answers. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaura Miller, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book hunts bigger game.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eReads like an odd?and oddly satisfying?fusion of George Packer's \u003ci\u003eThe Unwinding \u003c\/i\u003eand one of Michael Lewis' real-life financial thrillers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Does a remarkable job. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeth Macy, author of \u003ci\u003eFactory Man: \u003c\/i\u003eThis book should be required reading for people trying to understand Trumpism, inequality, and the sad state of a needlessly wrecked rural America. I wish I had written it. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In \u003ci\u003eGlass House\u003c\/i\u003e, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown 35 years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world's largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster's society was built. As \u003ci\u003eGlass House \u003c\/i\u003eunfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster's citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam Solomon, an African-American leading the nearly all-white town's biggest private employer, as he tries to rescue the company from the New York private equity firm that hired him. Meanwhile, Alexander goes behind the scenes, entwined with the lives of residents as they wrestle with heroin, politics, high-interest lenders, low wage jobs, technology, and the new demands of American life: people like Brian Gossett, the fourth generation to work at Anchor Hocking; Joe Piccolo, first-time director of the annual music festival who discovers the town relies on him, and it, for salvation; Jason Roach, who police believed may have been Lancaster's biggest drug dealer; and Eric Brown, a local football hero-turned-cop who comes to realize that he can never arrest Lancaster's real problems.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53506510356753,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781250085801.jpg?v=1778112875","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-glass-house-by-brian-alexander","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}