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One day : the extraordinary story of an ordinary 24 hours in America
- Title
- One day : the extraordinary story of an ordinary 24 hours in America / Gene Weingarten.
- Author
- Weingarten, Gene
- Publication
- New York : Blue Rider Press, [2019]
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- Description
- 375 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten explores the events of a random day in U.S. history, offering a diorama of American life that illuminates all that has changed--and all that hasn't--in the past three decades. On 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. 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. One Day 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"--
- "The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America"--
- On New Year's Day 2013, Weingarten asked three strangers to pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. Sunday, December 28, 1986, was by conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that there is no such thing: that Sunday between Christmas and New Year's turned out to be filled with comedy, tragedy, implausible irony, and foreshadowing of momentous events yet to come. Lives were lost. Lives were saved. Lives were altered in overwhelming ways. Is there even such a thing as "ordinary" when we are talking about how we stumble our way through the daily, daunting challenge of being human? -- adapted from jacket
- Alternative Title
- Date drawn from a hat : Sunday, December 28, 1986 : the extraordinary story of an ordinary 24 hours in America
- Subjects
- United States
- United States > Social conditions > 20th century > Anecdotes
- Anecdotes
- United States > Social life and customs > 20th century > Anecdotes
- HISTORY / United States / General
- Social conditions
- Autobiographies
- Manners and customs
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General
- 1900-1999
- United States > Biography > Anecdotes
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
- Biographies
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Anecdotes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-3083
- ISBN
- 9780399166662
- 0399166661
- LCCN
- 2019001936
- 40029539685
- OCLC
- 1099539300
- Author
- Weingarten, Gene, author.
- Title
- One day : the extraordinary story of an ordinary 24 hours in America / Gene Weingarten.
- Publisher
- New York : Blue Rider Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029539685
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-3083