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Title: The American crisis : what went wrong, how we recover / the writers of the Atlantic ; introduction by Jeffrey Goldberg ; afterword by Anne Applebaum ; edited by Cullen Murphy.

Other titles: Atlantic monthly (Boston, Mass. : 1993)

Description: First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition. | New York : Simon and Schuster, 2020. | Includes index. | Summary: "Some of America's best reporters and thinkers offer an urgent look at a country in chaos in this collection of timely, often prophetic articles from The Atlantic"—Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020032887 (print) | LCCN 2020032888 (ebook) | ISBN 9781982157036 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781982157043 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781982157050 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: United States—Politics and government—21st century. | United States—Civilization—21st century.

Classification: LCC JK275 .A35 2020 (print) | LCC JK275 (ebook) | DDC 973.933—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020032887

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020032888

ISBN 978-1-9821-5703-6

ISBN 978-1-9821-5704-3 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-9821-5705-0 (ebook)