Wildland: the Making of America's Fury

Evan Osnos

eBook - 2021

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAfter 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.Evan Osnos moved to Washington, D.C., in 2013 after a decade away from the United States, first reporting from the Middle East before becoming the Beijing bureau chief at the Chicago Tribune and then the China correspondent for The New Yorker. While abroad, he often found himself making a case for America, urging the citizens of Egypt, Iraq, or China to trust that even though America had made grave mistakes throughout its history, it aspired to som...e foundational moral commitments: the rule of law, the power of truth, the right of equal opportunity for all. But when he returned to the United States,... more