Title: One Day Pdf The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
Author: Gene Weingarten
Published Date: 2019
Page: 384
Praise for One Day“As I’ve gotten older, I’ve become less interested in elaborate fictions or spectacular histories and just want to know how life is lived. I want a book about how other humans get things and lose things, and deal with both, how they cope and how they fail and how they live and how they die. This is the book I’ve been waiting for. The people described in this book are wonderful and flawed, some of them evil, some of them impossibly good. But none of them have lived the kind of lives that normally get told in books, and in finally seeking them out and telling their stories, Gene has done them, and us, a priceless service.”—Peter Sagal, Host, NPR's "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" and author of The Incomplete Book of Running“Extraordinary tales from an ordinary day, masterfully fashioned. Because Weingarten is such a compelling storyteller, it’s easy to overlook how much A+ journalism undergirds “One Day." Every detail, every quote, is not just the answer to a question; it’s the answer to precisely the right question.”—Garry Trudeau, creator of Doonesbury“A captivating portrait of a day in the life of the United States by a much-honored Washington Post journalist... One of the finest plain-prose stylists in American journalism, Weingarten tells his elegantly structured stories without sentimentality or melodrama... A slice of American life carved out by a master of the form.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Everybody loves a good story, especially when it's told by a master storyteller. This collection should have wide appeal, whether read straight through, cover to cover, or dipped into for an occasional article.”—Booklist (starred review)“A trove of compelling human-interest pieces with long reverberations.”—Publishers Weekly “Much more than a gimmick…full of riveting tales.”—Washingtonian“A master storyteller...a helluva good look at The Human Experience…a collection of ripping yarns.”—The Star Tribune "Ace writer mines tales from a random Sunday...to organize a book bristling with drama. The journalistic version of a swan dive off a tall ladder into a teacup."—Chicago Sun-Times “This snapshot of the nation on one particular day is one that deserves pride of place in America’s family album.”—Daily Beast“One of Fall 2019's Biggest Books...Weingarten, who has won two Pulitzers for feature writing, tells it as few can.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer“Fall books for your must-read list...It is a great book. It’s not about anything huge, it’s not uncovering murder mysteries or anything, but it makes connections about people’s lives in America at that time that reverberates today.”—Minnesota Public Radio Gene Weingarten is a Washington Post journalist. He writes long-form stories as well as Below the Beltway, the weekly syndicated humor column. His previous books include I’m With Stupid: One Man. One Woman. 10,000 Years of Misunderstanding Between the Sexes Cleared Right Up (with Gina Barreca); The Hypochondriac’s Guide to Life. And Death; Old Dogs: Are the Best Dogs; and The Fiddler in the Subway, a collection of his best-known work. Weingarten is the only two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, for examining the phenomenon of parents who accidentally leave their children to bake to death in hot cars, and for an experiment in which he arranged for famed violinist Joshua Bell to busk incognito outside a Metro station in Washington, to see if anyone would notice.He lives in Washington, D.C.
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.
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