Glass house : the 1% economy and the shattering of the all-American town /|cBrian Alexander.
(Book)
Author
ISBN
9781250165770, 1250165776
Physical Desc
xiv, 320 pages : illustration, map ; 25 cm.
Status
Nonfiction
338.476 ALE
1 available
338.476 ALE
1 available
Description
Loading Description...
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
---|---|---|
Nonfiction | 338.476 ALE | On Shelf |
Also in this Series
Checking series information...
Subjects
Other Subjects
Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation -- History.
City dwellers -- Ohio -- Lancaster -- Economic aspects.
Deindustrialization -- Ohio -- Lancaster.
Distribution (Economic theory.)
Glass manufacture -- Ohio -- Lancaster -- History.
Lancaster (Ohio) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
Lancaster (Ohio) -- History, Local.
Lancaster (Ohio) -- Social life and customs -- History.
Small cities -- Ohio -- Lancaster -- Economic aspects.
City dwellers -- Ohio -- Lancaster -- Economic aspects.
Deindustrialization -- Ohio -- Lancaster.
Distribution (Economic theory.)
Glass manufacture -- Ohio -- Lancaster -- History.
Lancaster (Ohio) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
Lancaster (Ohio) -- History, Local.
Lancaster (Ohio) -- Social life and customs -- History.
Small cities -- Ohio -- Lancaster -- Economic aspects.
More Details
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9781250165770, 1250165776
Notes
General Note
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 world’s largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster’s society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster’s 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, an African-American leading the nearly all-white town’s biggest private employer, 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 Lancaster’s biggest drug dealer; and Eric Brown, a local football hero-turned-cop who comes to realize that he can never arrest Lancaster’s real problems.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
20190218.
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Alexander, B. (2017). Glass house: the 1% economy and the shattering of the all-American town /|cBrian Alexander (First edition.). St. Martin's Press, .
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Alexander, Brian, 1959-. 2017. Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town /|cBrian Alexander. St. Martin's Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Alexander, Brian, 1959-. Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town /|cBrian Alexander St. Martin's Press, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Alexander, Brian. Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town /|cBrian Alexander First edition., St. Martin's Press, , 2017.
Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.