The Unwinding

The Unwinding

By
George Packer
George Packer
2013 • 448 pages

Ratings8

Average rating3.9

15

List

654 books

Nonfiction

sylviax
Sylvia Chi
On Human Nature
Breaking Open the Head
Pathologies of Power
Supercapitalism
The Nine
The Rhetorics of Feminism: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Popular Press
The Climate War : True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth

List

27 books

Heard About It On Npr

sylviax
Sylvia Chi
Into the Silence
Space Chronicles
The power of habit why we do what we do and how to change it
Imagine
It's Even Worse Than It Looks
Zoobiquity
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies

List

100 books

History

b_richardson
Michael
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Russian Thinkers
Bomb Power : the Modern Presidency and the National Security State
Dealers of Lightning
Augustus
Playing to the Edge

List

212 books

2019

morrow
Mike
A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations
There Are Doors
The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Cold Warriors
Children of God

List

357 books

Owned Unread

bparkey
Brent Parkey
Giant
Destiny and power
Some luck
Outliers: The Story of Success
But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
Blood on snow
Midnight sun

List

822 books

Nonfiction

christinared
Christina
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
An American Requiem
A Fair Country
The Happiness Project
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
In Search of Grace

List

86 books

Current Events

christinared
Christina
It's What I Do : A Photographer's Life of Love and War
The Terror Years
Jan Wong's China
American Fascists : the Christian Right and the War on America
The Unwinding
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

List

63 books

Us Nonfiction To Read

Ania
Anna
The Unwinding
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
Black hearts
The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
#Newsfail
Against Joie de Vivre: Personal Essays
Notes from no man's land : American essays

List

151 books

Nonfiction

Lizfrances
Elizabeth Dean
Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
The End of Men
An Epidemic of Absence
In Praise of Messy Lives: Essays
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
Bad Religion

List

213 books

2018

thehourofpearl
Jess
The social shaping of technology
The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs
An American Marriage
So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know
Rainbirds
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
Still Lives

List

101 books

Books I Own

thehourofpearl
Jess
The social shaping of technology
Purple Hibiscus
Why We Swim
Rainbirds
Still Lives
The Nesting
Listen, Liberal

List

79 books

To Buy

kellingent
Kellin
The Men Can't Be Saved
Unaccompanied
No Justice in the Shadows: How America Criminalizes Immigrants
The Body Keeps the Score
The Unwinding
Conversations with Myself

List

511 books

Non Fiction

zween_eugene
Eugene Wilder
Where Men Win Glory
Eiger Dreams
Eating Animals
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Way We Eat
The Rest Is Noise

List

37 books

Tbr History

veritas
m
The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History
The Ottomans
Ten Caesars
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China
Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country

List

98 books

Current Affairs

Garp
Gar Petterson
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857
White Mughals
River Town
Zeitoun
The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better
India After Gandhi
Oracle Bones

List

282 books

Geschiedenis

Rallie76
Ralf karsten
Te vuur en te zwaard
Een kleine geschiedenis van China
Marcus Aurelius
A Short History of Myth
A History Of God
War! What Is It Good For?
Congo. Een geschiedenis

List

121 books

Book

Rallie76
Ralf karsten
Kruis met haken: Duitse christenen in het Derde Rijk
De vrouwen van het kalifaat
Het kleine koude front
Napoleon the Great
Twee steden: opkomst van Constantinopel; neergang van Rome, 330-608
De Middellandse Zee: Een persoonlijke geschiedenis
Vreemd volk: integratie en discriminatie in de Griekse en Romeinse wereld

List

67 books

Prijzen

Rallie76
Ralf karsten
Israël verdeeld
Congo. Een geschiedenis
De Boerenoorlog
The Unwinding
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Lenin's Tomb
Gulag: A History of the Soviet Concentration Camps

List

63 books

Beste Boeken

Rallie76
Ralf karsten
Ik was een van hen
De wraak van Poetin
De Boerenoorlog
The Jesus I never knew
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
Het zijn net mensen: Beelden uit het Midden-Oosten
Het huis van de moskee

List

235 books

Politiek

Rallie76
Ralf karsten
Donald Trump
De nieuwe revolutionaire golf
The Limits of Power
De wraak van Poetin
Je hebt het niet van mij, maar...: een maand aan het Binnenhof
World order

List

149 books

Journalisten

Rallie76
Ralf karsten
Oh, oh, Amerika
Ik was een van hen
Vertrouw op Allah maar bind wel je kameel vast
Jihad met sambal
Duizend dagen extreem leven
'Welkom Amerika, in jullie graf': Irak achter de schermen
Saoedi-Arabië: De revolutie die nog moet komen

List

9 books

Prijzen Nba

Rallie76
Ralf karsten
The Unwinding
Age of Ambition
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
Between the World and Me
Embracing Defeat

List

134 books

Amerika

Rallie76
Ralf karsten
1776
Reizen zonder John
The Limits of Power
World order
Oh, oh, Amerika
Donald Trump

List

75 books

Trumpistan And Co

Rallie76
Ralf karsten
De nieuwe revolutionaire golf
Donald Trump
The Unwinding
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
On Tyranny
Vechtscheiding. Hoe Erdogan de Turkse gemeenschap splijt

List

10 books

Top 10

Rallie76
Ralf karsten
Het hele leven is hier een wereld op zichzelf
Congo. Een geschiedenis
Het zijn net mensen: Beelden uit het Midden-Oosten
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
De Boerenoorlog
The Unwinding