The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
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Oct 12, 2026
Janet ReitmanGUEST
So I understood that something had really shifted in the culture and I decided to write this book.
Walter IsaacsonGUEST
So, Janet, we were talking earlier about how in some ways George Packer's The Unwinding is a template for this book in the sense that it's a great narrative.
Walter IsaacsonGUEST
It is a personality-driven narrative.
Walter IsaacsonGUEST
And he has a theory in his book about why is it so many people felt disenfranchised and got radicalized.
Andrew KeenHOST
The book comes with a lovely blurb from an old friend of the show, um, George Packer.
Andrew KeenHOST
Uh, he's, of course, best known perhaps for his book, The Unwinding: An Inner History of New America, that in some ways seems to have a similar architecture to yours.
Andrew KeenHOST
I- in, in The Unwinding, George tells the story of a number of real Americans to put together a s- a broader story of America, and that's what you seem to be doing in The Inheritance.
Andrew KeenHOST
Is that fair?
Andrew KeenHOST
Uh, this Inner History-
Janet ReitmanGUEST
It is
Andrew KeenHOST
... of New America, which George wrote, uh, in the first, uh, part of the century.
Andrew KeenHOST
It was dark.