The Glass City: A New Perspective on Alexander Lancaster's American Book

If you enjoyed books like "Hillbilly Elegy" and "Strangers in Their Own Land," you'll love the new American city and glass story by J.D. Vance and Elizabeth Alexander.

Dive into the must-read book set in New York City, Glass Houses , acclaimed by Newsweek and featured on The Week 's list of top books in 2017. Recognized by Bustle as one of the 16 best nonfiction books releasing in February 2017, this American non-fiction gem by author Alexander Lancaster is a standout selection that also made the cut for Books by the Banks in 2017.

In his new American City: Lancaster, New Glass book, Mr. Alexander paints a powerful picture that sheds light on why swing-state America chose to reject the establishment in 2016. According to The Wall Avenue Journal , his work offers a plethora of explanations for this decision.

Laura Miller, Slate : “ This e book hunts larger sport. Reads like an odd?and oddly satisfying?fusion of George Packer’s The Unwinding and one among Michael Lewis’ real-life monetary thrillers.”

The New Yorker : “Does a outstanding job.”

Beth Macy, writer of Manufacturing facility Man: “ This e book ought to be required studying for individuals making an attempt to know Trumpism, inequality, and the unhappy state of a needlessly wrecked rural America. I want I had written it.”

In 1947, Forbes journal declared Lancaster, Ohio the epitome of the all-American city. Right this moment it’s broken, discouraged, and preventing for its future. In Glass Home , journalist Brian Alexander makes use of the story of 1 city to point out how seeds sown 35 years in the past have sprouted to provide us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding nationwide cohesion.

The Anchor Hocking Glass Firm, as soon as the world’s largest maker of glass tableware, was the bottom on which Lancaster’s society was constructed. As Glass Home unfolds, chapter looms. With entry to the corporate and its leaders, and Lancaster’s residents, Alexander exhibits how monetary engineering took maintain within the Nineteen Eighties, accelerated within the twenty first Century, and wrecked the corporate. We observe CEO Sam Solomon, an African-American main the almost all-white city’s largest personal employer, as he tries to rescue the corporate from the New York personal fairness agency that employed him. In the meantime, Alexander goes behind the scenes, entwined with the lives of residents as they wrestle with heroin, politics, high-interest lenders, low wage jobs, expertise, and the brand new calls for of American life: individuals like Brian Gossett, the fourth technology to work at Anchor Hocking; Joe Piccolo, first-time director of the annual music competition who discovers the city depends on him, and it, for salvation; Jason Roach, who police believed could have been Lancaster’s largest drug supplier; and Eric Brown, an area soccer hero-turned-cop who comes to comprehend that he can by no means arrest Lancaster’s actual issues.