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One Day
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One Day

The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America

Blue Rider Press, 2019 更多详情


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Well Structured
  • Engaging

Recommendation

Washington Post writer Gene Weingarten examines a random, “ordinary” day. The stories he relates are both nothing special and significantly moving. Most barely made it into the news. Searching behind the bare facts of murder, catastrophe, heroism, good fortune and despair, Weingarten discovers how events emerge from webs of connection, coincidence and chance to affect a community and generations to come. He’s a charming, captivating writer, with an eye for telling detail, a flair for dramatic narrative and a gift for complex, layered portraits.

Take-Aways

  • No day is ordinary. Consider December 28, 1986, for example.
  • In Nebraska, a lost teenager died a hero.
  • A robbery resolved a campus political conflict in Rhode Island.

About the Author

Washington Post writer and humor columnist Gene Weingarten has won two Pulitzer Prizes for feature writing. 


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