Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Anand GiridharadasTheme:Chronological Period/21st Century, Demographic Orientation/Urban, Ethnic Orientation/MulticulturalPublish date:9/29/2026Pages:480
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780593802014ISBN-10:0593802012UPC:9780593802014Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Sociology, Race & Ethnic Relations, United StatesBook Topic:Urban, 21st CenturySize:9.25 x 6.13 x 1.19 inchesWeight:0.658Product ID:SCEVNXQTC2
From acclaimed journalist Anand Giridharadas, a groundbreaking feat of reporting on a tragic encounter in a New York subway car that held up a mirror to a troubled and divided nation "A tour de force of sharp-eyed reporting, powerful narrative, and heartbreaking tragedy. . . . Brilliant and spellbinding."
--Robert B. Reich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Coming Up Short In 2023, the lives of two men--Jordan Neely, a homeless man known in better days for his Michael Jackson impersonations, and Daniel Penny, an ex-Marine who had moved to the big city seeking more than Long Island could offer--collided tragically in a New York subway car. In Man in the Mirror, award-winning reporter and bestselling author Anand Giridharadas renders this deadly encounter and its aftermath as a propulsive crime story that opens onto a larger human drama: the search for belonging in an age of estrangement. Inhabiting the perspectives of an unforgettable cast of characters, Giridharadas immerses us in the places where this story plays out, from the corridors of power in City Hall to subway benches where New Yorkers spend the night, from a Marine Corps base to a Harlem church in mourning--and, ultimately, to a courtroom where a riveting battle unfolds. In his painstakingly reported, richly novelistic narrative, these characters' strivings and struggles--to care for loved ones and strangers, to protect the public, to seek justice--reveal the humanity behind the headlines. Through one character's eyes and then another's, Giridharadas presents a chapter of American history too often reduced to divisive clickbait as something far more complex and full of life. At once panoramic in its scope and finely detailed in its emotional immediacy, Man in the Mirror is a tour de force of narrative reporting and an indispensable portrait of our times.
--Robert B. Reich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Coming Up Short In 2023, the lives of two men--Jordan Neely, a homeless man known in better days for his Michael Jackson impersonations, and Daniel Penny, an ex-Marine who had moved to the big city seeking more than Long Island could offer--collided tragically in a New York subway car. In Man in the Mirror, award-winning reporter and bestselling author Anand Giridharadas renders this deadly encounter and its aftermath as a propulsive crime story that opens onto a larger human drama: the search for belonging in an age of estrangement. Inhabiting the perspectives of an unforgettable cast of characters, Giridharadas immerses us in the places where this story plays out, from the corridors of power in City Hall to subway benches where New Yorkers spend the night, from a Marine Corps base to a Harlem church in mourning--and, ultimately, to a courtroom where a riveting battle unfolds. In his painstakingly reported, richly novelistic narrative, these characters' strivings and struggles--to care for loved ones and strangers, to protect the public, to seek justice--reveal the humanity behind the headlines. Through one character's eyes and then another's, Giridharadas presents a chapter of American history too often reduced to divisive clickbait as something far more complex and full of life. At once panoramic in its scope and finely detailed in its emotional immediacy, Man in the Mirror is a tour de force of narrative reporting and an indispensable portrait of our times.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780593802014ISBN-10:0593802012UPC:9780593802014Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Sociology, Race & Ethnic Relations, United StatesBook Topic:Urban, 21st CenturySize:9.25 x 6.13 x 1.19 inchesWeight:0.658Product ID:SCEVNXQTC2
ANAND GIRIDHARADAS is the New York Times bestselling author of The Persuaders, Winners Take All, The True American, and India Calling. A former foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times for more than a decade, he has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Time, and is the publisher of the newsletter The.Ink. He is an on-air political analyst for MS NOW. He has received the Radcliffe Fellowship, the Porchlight Business Book of the Year Award, Harvard University's Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for Humanism in Culture, and the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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