Divided We Fall – Gambling with History in the Nineties - Hardcover

Johnson, Haynes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393036294 ISBN 13: 9780393036299

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994

Synopsis

"I would like people to say I restored possibility in American life." This was President Bill Clinton in a private interview at the end of Haynes Johnson's journey through a divided and apprehensive America. In the process of researching for this book Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, interviewed grassroots Americans across America. From businessmen and judges to youthclub members and illegal immigrants, all were interviewed and expressed their deepest hopes and fears. The same major concerns kept surfacing: jobs, crime, race, education, leadership, morals and life for the next generation. The result is a portrait of a people disconnected from their government, yearning for change but aware of the hard choices that will not yield to rapid solution.

About this title

Review:

[Johnson's] reporter's instinct and analysis . . . make the book indispensable. His ear and eye for understanding America get to the real point of what our problems are.

About the Author:

Haynes Johnson has taught at Princeton University.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0393036294
• ISBN 13: 9780393036299
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480