One Day The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America【電子書籍】[ Gene Weingarten ]

＜p＞**“One of the 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years”ー＜em＞Slate＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞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ーchosen completely at randomー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.**＜/p＞ ＜p＞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.＜/p＞ ＜．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る