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AMERICAN BREAKDOWN dissects how, in the space of a generation, the pillars that sustained the once-dominant superpower have been dangerously eroded. From government to business, from media to medicine-the strength and security of the American experiment have been weakened by a widening gap between the elites who control these institutions…
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Gerard’s reflections on a fractured America resonate so deeply with me.
He writes with the same kind of searching spirit I tried to bring to my book: an effort to find a moral center in a world that often seems to have lost its way.
Gerard’s book helped me see that even when everything feels like it’s falling apart, there are still spaces for wonder and decency to take root. And that’s what keeps me writing—and hoping.
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