2020
By Eric Klinenberg
By Eric Klinenberg
By Eric Klinenberg
By Eric Klinenberg
By Eric Klinenberg
By Eric Klinenberg
By Eric Klinenberg
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By Eric Klinenberg
Read by Dan John Miller and Eric Klinenberg
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Feb 04, 2025 | ISBN 9780593313602
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$19.00
Feb 04, 2025 | ISBN 9780593313602
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$32.00
Feb 13, 2024 | ISBN 9780593319482
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Feb 13, 2024 | ISBN 9780593319499
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Feb 13, 2024 | ISBN 9780593825242
924 Minutes
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Praise
âIn Eric Klinenbergâs excellent 2020, we are given both micro-incidentâclosely reported scenes from the lives of representative New Yorkers struggling through the plague yearâand macro-comment: cross-cultural, overarching chapters assess broader social forces . . . Throughout, Klinenbergâs mixture of closeup witness and broad-view sociology is engrossing, and reminds this reader of the late Howard S. Beckerâs insistence that the best sociology is always, in the first instance, wide-angle reporting. As we flow effortlessly from big picture to small, we learn from both.â
âAdam Gopnik, The New Yorker
â2020 isâŠa masterful piece of rigorous journalism, rigorous sociology, and incredible story-telling.â
âChris Hayes, MSNBC News
âCovers an extraordinarily rich range of issues and insights, some of them familiar, others utterly freshâŠOne of the most striking expressions of Americaâs political brokenness that Iâve yet encountered.â
âRick Perlstein, The American Prospect
â2020 reshaped our politics, unveiled cracks in our society and transformed the ways we work, live, and interact with each other. But weâve never really reckoned with those changes. Eric Klinenberg has just released a wonderful bookâŠthat unpacks the ways that terrible year revealed what we value and changed how we interact. A beautiful book and one that, despite my initial anxiety, Iâm really happy to have read.â
âJon Favreau, Host of Pod Save America
âBy bridging the gaps between individual, community and population, [Klinenberg] shows how pandemics alter society and exacerbate inequality. He follows the threads that connect the individual lived experience to the national phenomenon.â
âLaura Spinney, New Statesman
âI can easily see this book being invaluable in the future.â
âStuart Miller, Los Angeles Times
âElegantly written and well researched.â
âThe Economist
âWhen I think 2020, I think blur: social unrest, economic turbulence, all amplified and fueled by a world-historical pandemic. As someone who teaches at a public health school, Iâve wondered for a while what a book that successfully captured that year would look like. Eric Klinenbergâs 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed is that book. Itâs written with the critical distance we need to finally get our heads around it; the deep research to make it more than armchair analysis; and the ambitious sweep that brings fractured threads together.â
âMerlin Chowkwanyun, Public Books
âRemarkable . . . full of intriguing insights.â
âLiterary Review
âA call for thought and planningâand a shaming. KlinenbergâŠtells a factual story, of course. But the unexpectedly moving trick he pulls offâthe way he humanizes statistics alternately chilling and numbingâis by writing profiles of seven New Yorkers grappling with the disease, both at work and at home.â
âPittsburgh Post-Gazette
âA gripping, deeply moving account of a signal year in modern history, told through the stories of seven ordinary people trying to survive at the epicenter of the crisis. Klinenbergâs narrative not only exposes the social fault lines that made 2020 epically traumatic but also shows how the legacy of that year continues to shape us, our politics and our personal lives.â
âSiddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies
âIn 2020, Eric Klinenberg explores the meaning and impact of the pandemic through the experiences of seven New Yorkers who lived through it. The result is a book thatâs at once intimate and far-ranging, a work that reveals the importance of social solidarity and also its fragility.â
âElizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction
âA sociological investigation of an unforgettable year. Klinenberg profiles a radicalized bar manager, a determined school principal, and a cast of Americans whose stories reveal how 2020 reshaped life in the United States. By asking fresh questionsâWhy did crime and social division spike in the U.S. but not elsewhere? How did masks get so politicized?â2020 compellingly reveals what the pandemic laid bare about our culture, our institutions, and ourselves.â
âMatthew Desmond, best-selling author of Poverty, by America and Evicted
âKlinenbergâŠcompiles a superb âsocial autopsyâ of turbulent 2020, investigating how institutions, societies, and political leadership crackedâŠ.This exceptional discussion of the chaos and catastrophe of COVID-19 ranks alongside Lawrence Wrightâs The Plague Year (2021) as essential reading on the subject. Letâs hope that the experience of 2020 has bestowed upon us 20/20 lucidity, resolve, and solidarity moving forward.â
âBooklist, Starred Review
âRigorously researchedâŠ.[Klinenberg] pays tribute to peopleâs resilience and generous responses in the face of terrible odds, via profiles of seven individualsâŠ.Engrossing, this book captures the lingering uncertainty that has characterized the COVID pandemic, while assessing its global effects and likely future challenges. This vital title has breadth.â
âLibrary Journal, Starred Review
âRivetingâŠa vivid and nuanced account.â
âPublishers Weekly