One Day The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America

Name: One Day The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
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ISBN: 9780399185830

ISBN-10: 0399185836

ISBN-13: 9780399185830

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Authors: Gene Weingarten

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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…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/8/2020
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.15" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Gene Weingarten is a nationally syndicated humor columnist and a Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for The Washington Post. He lives in Washington, DC.