{"product_id":"one-day-the-extraordinary-story-of-an-ordinary-24-hours-in-america-paperback","title":"One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGene Weingarten\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"One of the 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years\"--\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day--chosen completely at random--turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that there is no such thing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e That Sunday between Christmas and New Year's turned out to be filled with comedy, tragedy, implausible irony, cosmic comeuppances, kindness, cruelty, heroism, cowardice, genius, idiocy, prejudice, selflessness, coincidence, and startling moments of human connection, along with evocative foreshadowing of momentous events yet to come. Lives were lost. Lives were saved. Lives were altered in overwhelming ways. Many of these events never made it into the news; they were private dramas in the lives of private people. They were utterly compelling. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eOne Day\u003c\/i\u003e asks and answers the question of whether there is even such a thing as \"ordinary\" when we are talking about how we all lurch and stumble our way through the daily, daunting challenge of being human.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGene Weingarten\u003c\/b\u003e is a \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e journalist. He writes long-form stories as well as Below the Beltway, the weekly syndicated humor column. His previous books include \u003ci\u003eI'm With Stupid: One Man. One Woman. 10,000 Years of Misunderstanding Between the Sexes Cleared Right Up \u003c\/i\u003e(with Gina Barreca); \u003ci\u003eThe Hypochondriac's Guide to Life. And Death\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eOld Dogs: Are the Best Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Fiddler in the Subway, \u003c\/i\u003ea collection of his best-known work. Weingarten is the only two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, for examining the phenomenon of parents who accidentally leave their children to bake to death in hot cars, and for an experiment in which he arranged for famed violinist Joshua Bell to busk incognito outside a Metro station in Washington to see if anyone would notice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe lives in Washington, D.C.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 08, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769268502816,"sku":"9780399185830","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/33a6f0d0687713e2bc1ac64f055dbc50.webp?v=1780344692","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/one-day-the-extraordinary-story-of-an-ordinary-24-hours-in-america-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}