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050		4	_aE185.86 _bW456 2019
100	1		_aWeingarten, Gene,
245	1	0	_aOne day : _bthe extraordinary story of an ordinary 24 hours in America / _cGene Weingarten.
264		1	_aNew York : _bBlue Rider Press, _c[2019]
300			_a375 pages ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_a"Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten explores the events of a random day in U.S. history, offering a diorama of American life that illuminates all that has changed--and all that hasn't--in the past three decades. 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--chosen completely at random--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. 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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America"-- _cProvided by publisher.
651		0	_aUnited States _xSocial conditions _vAnecdotes.
651		0	_aUnited States _xSocial life and customs _vAnecdotes.
651		0	_aUnited States _vBiography _vAnecdotes.
655		7	_aAnecdotes. _2lcgft.
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