{"title":"Books by Evan Osnos","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781526635518","title":"Wildland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A  sweeping and brilliant portrait\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e’\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A reportorial tour de force … Heart-rending, appalling and hard to put down’\u003c\/b\u003e JANE MAYER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003cb\u003eVisionary in scope, compassionate in procedure … Definitive’\u003c\/b\u003e AYAD AKHTAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvan Osnos moved to Washington, DC, in 2013 after a decade away from the United States. While abroad, he often found himself making a case for America, urging the citizens of Egypt, Iraq or China to trust that even though America had made grave mistakes throughout its history, it aspired to some foundational moral commitments – the rule of law, the power of truth, the right of equal opportunity for all. But when he returned to the United States, he found each of these principles under assault.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn search of an explanation for the crisis, he focused on three places he knew firsthand: Greenwich, Connecticut; Clarksburg, West Virginia; and Chicago, Illinois. Reported over the course of six years, \u003ci\u003eWildland\u003c\/i\u003e follows ordinary individuals as they navigate the varied landscapes of twenty-first-century America. Through their powerful, often poignant stories, Osnos traces the sources of America’s political dissolution. He finds answers in the rightward shift of the financial elite in Greenwich; in the collapse of social infrastructure and possibility in Clarksburg; and in the compounded effects of segregation and violence in Chicago. The truth about the state of the nation may be found not in the slogans of political leaders but in the intricate details of individual lives, and in the hidden connections between them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA dramatic, prescient examination of seismic changes in American politics and culture, \u003ci\u003eWildland \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of a crucible, a period bounded by two shocks to America’s psyche, two assaults on the country’s sense of itself: the attacks of September 11 in 2001 and the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Following the lives of everyday Americans in three cities across two decades, Osnos illuminates the country in a startling light, revealing how it lost the moral confidence to see itself as larger than the sum of its parts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43206173294770,"sku":"9781526635518","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781526635518_fac9178f-6655-447d-bb28-93ad6395fa75.jpg?v=1786022120"},{"product_id":"9780099589976","title":"Age of Ambition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2014*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China.\u003cbr\u003eA barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau. \u003cbr\u003eThe richest woman in China, a recycling tycoon known as the ‘Wastepaper Queen’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAge of Ambition\u003c\/i\u003e describes some of the billion individual lives that make up China’s story – one that unfolds on remote farms, in glittering mansions, and in the halls of power of the world’s largest authoritarian regime. Together they describe the defining clash taking place today: between the individual and the Communist Party’s struggle to retain control. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere is a China infused with a sense of boundless possibility and teeming romance. Yet it is also riven by contradictions. It is the world’s largest buyer of Rolls Royces and Ferraris yet the word ‘luxury’ is banned from billboards. It has more Christians than members of the Communist Party. 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With deft storytelling and meticulous reporting, Evan Osnos exposes the hidden world of the ultrarich in all its outrageous, fabulous, ridiculous detail: superyachts, luxury bunkers, private gigs, wealth managers, elite tax dodges and a torrent of political donations.   Osnos’s essays are an entertaining, unsettling and eye-opening wake-up call – a case against complacency in the face of unchecked excess and staggering disparities of wealth and power. As the choices of the ultrarich ripple through our lives, The Haves and Have-Yachts couldn’t be more relevant to today’s world.   ‘A prestige romp’ New York Times ‘Superb’ Literary Review                                                                                            ‘Charming’ Washington Post ‘Important’ Irish Times‘Entertaining and unsettling’ Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57685873295733,"sku":"9781398553262","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56298562650485,"sku":"9781398553224","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781398553262.jpg?v=1792599094"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-evan-osnos.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}