{"product_id":"losing-our-way-an-intimate-portrait-of-a-troubled-america-paperback","title":"Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBob Herbert\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom longtime \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e columnist Bob Herbert comes a wrenching portrayal of ordinary Americans struggling for survival in a nation that has lost its way\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his eighteen years as an opinion columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Herbert championed the working poor and the middle class. After filing his last column in 2011, he set off on a journey across the country to report on Americans who were being left behind in an economy that has never fully recovered from the Great Recession. The portraits of those he encountered fuel his new book, \u003ci\u003eLosing Our Way\u003c\/i\u003e. Herbert's combination of heartrending reporting and keen political analysis is the purest expression since the Occupy movement of the plight of the 99 percent.\u003cbr\u003e The individuals and families who are paying the price of America's bad choices in recent decades form the book's emotional center: an exhausted high school student in Brooklyn who works the overnight shift in a factory at minimum wage to help pay her family's rent; a twenty-four-year-old soldier from Peachtree City, Georgia, who loses both legs in a misguided, mismanaged, seemingly endless war; a young woman, only recently engaged, who suffers devastating injuries in a tragic bridge collapse in Minneapolis; and a group of parents in Pittsburgh who courageously fight back against the politicians who decimated funding for their children's schools.\u003cbr\u003e Herbert reminds us of a time in America when unemployment was low, wages and profits were high, and the nation's wealth, by current standards, was distributed much more equitably. Today, the gap between the wealthy and everyone else has widened dramatically, the nation's physical plant is crumbling, and the inability to find decent work is a plague on a generation. Herbert traces where we went wrong and spotlights the drastic and dangerous shift of political power from ordinary Americans to the corporate and financial elite. Hope for America, he argues, lies in a concerted push to redress that political imbalance. Searing and unforgettable, \u003ci\u003eLosing Our Way\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately inspires with its faith in ordinary citizens to take back their true political power and reclaim the American dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBOB HERBERT was an opinion columnist for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003efrom 1993 to 2011. Before that he was a national correspondent for NBC News and a reporter and columnist for the New York \u003ci\u003eDaily News\u003c\/i\u003e. He has won numerous awards, including the American Society of News Editors award for distinguished newspaper writing and the Ridenhour Courage Prize for the \"fearless articulation of unpopular truths.\" Currently a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos, a public policy think tank in New York City, he also hosts \u003ci\u003eBob Herbert's OP-ED.TV, \u003c\/i\u003ea weekly interview program on Time Warner Cable, and is producing a documentary on the black middle class for PBS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 07, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758597570848,"sku":"9780767930840","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/dd2b0eb1cbd6d075756a5f289af51c0b_b1d122a2-d78a-473d-926e-d565d47dd060.webp?v=1780130132","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/losing-our-way-an-intimate-portrait-of-a-troubled-america-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}