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Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town - In 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In Glass House, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown 35 years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion. The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the worlds largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancasters society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancasters citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam Solomon as he tries to rescue the company from the New York private equity firm that hired him. Meanwhile, Alexander goes behind the scenes, entwined with the lives of residents as they wrestle with heroin, politics, high-interest lenders, low wage jobs, technology, and the new demands of American life: people like Brian Gossett, the fourth generation to work at Anchor Hocking; Joe Piccolo, first-time director of the annual music festival who discovers the town relies on him, and it, for salvation; Jason Roach, who police believed may have been Lancasters biggest drug dealer; and Eric Brown, a local football hero-turned-cop who comes to realize that he can never arrest Lancasters real problems.
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⚡️Book Title : Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
⚡Book Author : Brian Alexander
⚡Page : 336 pages
⚡Published February 14th 2017 by St. Martin's Press
Get Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
⚡️Book Title : Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
⚡Book Author : Brian Alexander
⚡Page : 336 pages
⚡Published February 14th 2017 by St. Martin's Press
Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
In 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In Glass House, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown 35 years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion. The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the worlds largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancasters society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancasters citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam Solomon as he tries to rescue the company from the New York private equity firm that hired him. Meanwhile, Alexander goes behind the scenes, entwined with the lives of residents as they wrestle with heroin, politics, high-interest lenders, low wage jobs, technology, and the new demands of American life: people like Brian Gossett, the fourth generation to work at Anchor Hocking; Joe Piccolo, first-time director of the annual music festival who discovers the town relies on him, and it, for salvation; Jason Roach, who police believed may have been Lancasters biggest drug dealer; and Eric Brown, a local football hero-turned-cop who comes to realize that he can never arrest Lancasters real problems.
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