Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America Audiobook (Free)

From longtime New York Times columnist Bob Herbert comes a wrenching portrayal of ordinary Americans struggling for survival in a country which has lost its way

In his eighteen years as an opinion columnist for The New York Times, Herbert championed the operating poor and the middle class. After filing his last column in 2011, he set off on a journey across the country to survey on Americans who were being left out in an overall economy that has under no circumstances fully recovered from the Great Downturn. The about Shedding Our Method: A ROMANTIC Portrait of the Stressed America portraits of these he encountered fuel his new book, Losing Our Way. Herbert’s mix of heartrending confirming and keen politics analysis is the purest expression because the Occupy movement of the plight from the 99 percent.

The people and families who are having to pay the price tag on America’s bad choices in recent decades type the book’s emotional middle: an tired high school pupil in Brooklyn who works the overnight change in a manufacturer at minimum wage to help spend her family’s rent; a twenty-four-year-old soldier from Peachtree City, Georgia, who loses both legs in a misguided, mismanaged, apparently endless war; a woman, only recently involved, who suffers devastating injuries inside a tragic bridge collapse in Minneapolis; and a group of parents in Pittsburgh who courageously fight back against the politicians who decimated financing for his or her children’s schools.

Herbert reminds us of a time in the us when unemployment was low, wages and profits were high, as well as the nation’s prosperity, by current specifications, was distributed a lot more equitably. Today, the difference between the wealthy and everyone else offers widened significantly, the nation’s physical flower is definitely crumbling, and the shortcoming to find good work is usually a plague on a era. Herbert traces where we went wrong and spotlights the extreme and dangerous change of political power from ordinary Americans to the organization and financial elite. Expect America, he argues, is based on a concerted press to redress that politics imbalance. Searing and memorable, Losing Our Way ultimately inspires with its beliefs in ordinary residents to get back their true political power and reclaim the American fantasy.