American Surfaces
1999 · 256 pages
Every meal, every motel bed, every stranger the photographer Stephen Shore met driving America in 1972, printed cheap at a drugstore. He made the throwaway snapshot into how America gets pictured.
★ 5.3
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The Unwinding
An Inner History of the New America
2013 · 434 pages
Packer follows a Youngstown factory worker, a North Carolina biodiesel man and a Washington lobbyist from 1978 to 2012, and shows the institutions that once held Americans in place giving way to money.
★ 5.6