By Brian Alexander
For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers of their personal Land
**A New York put up Must-Read ebook, a Newsweek most sensible New booklet, one in every of The Week's 20 Books to learn in 2017, one in all Bustle's sixteen top Nonfiction Books Coming in February 2017**
"Remarkably nuanced...should be required reading." - Beth Macy, writer of Factory Man
"Glass House’s subtitle...hints on the book’s distinction from its best-selling predecessor. Alexander’s publication is much less own, much less tortured, a piece of journalism way more keen to indict forces higher than the obdurate, delusional satisfaction of the white operating category. This publication hunts larger game." -Laura Miller, Slate
In 1947, Forbes journal declared Lancaster, Ohio the epitome of the all-American city. at the present time it really is broken, discouraged, and struggling with for its destiny. In Glass House, journalist Brian Alexander makes use of the tale of 1 city to teach how seeds sown 35 years in the past have sprouted to provide us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding nationwide cohesion.
The Anchor Hocking Glass corporation, as soon as the world’s greatest maker of glass tableware, was once the bottom on which Lancaster’s society used to be equipped. As Glass condo unfolds, financial ruin looms. With entry to the corporate and its leaders, and Lancaster’s electorate, Alexander exhibits how monetary engineering took carry within the Eighties, speeded up within the twenty first Century, and wrecked the corporate. We persist with CEO Sam Solomon, an African-American major the approximately all-white town’s greatest inner most agency, as he attempts to rescue the corporate from the recent York deepest fairness enterprise that employed him. in the meantime, Alexander is going behind the curtain, entwined with the lives of citizens as they combat with heroin, politics, high-interest creditors, low salary jobs, know-how, and the hot calls for of yankee lifestyles: humans like Brian Gossett, the fourth iteration to paintings at Anchor Hocking; Joe Piccolo, first-time director of the once a year track competition who discovers town depends on him, and it, for salvation; Jason Roach, who police believed could have been Lancaster’s largest drug broker; and Eric Brown, a neighborhood soccer hero-turned-cop who involves observe that he can by no means arrest Lancaster’s actual problems.
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More than a hundred years ago, a Gossett ancestor owned land by the banks of Clear Creek, about ten miles southeast of town. The creek burbled through a hollow in the Appalachian foothills. The ancestor farmed along the bottomland at the base of a wooded hill. Almost all the acreage around had long since become a nature park, but the Gossetts still possessed a small inholding, Hilltop, crowning the hill. The land wasn’t good for much except enjoying the woods and hunting deer. Brian had decided to start building a cabin on it.
Along with Forest Rose and Sherman, horse racing by gaslight became part of the Lancaster story. People still mention it today. The city pioneered the public ownership of an energy utility by forming a municipal gas company to exploit the find. A bond issue to raise $50,000 passed by a wide margin. ) As of 1906, Lancaster charged ten cents per month, half the rate for gas in surrounding cities and towns. B. C. Forbes believed public ownership of utilities would be a disastrous step toward socialism, so Forbes clucked over the natural gas story.
Aaron was one leaf on a complex Lancaster family tree; there were scores of Shonks around town. He was in a funky folk-bluegrass band, the Shonk Brothers, with his brother and a couple of other guys. ” It was a joke he and Aaron had been acting out for years to make fun of people who said asshole stuff like “White power,” like those guys from the Klan who had come through Lancaster a few months before and handed out flyers to kids. The flyers had lollipops attached. Aaron and a friend walked up the shaky stairs that clung to the outside of the garage.