💭 Failed American Dream

The promise of prosperity and reinvention curdles into disillusionment, exposing the hollow core beneath America's most seductive mythology.

Martin Eden

by Jack London • 1909

A sailor meets a refined girl and destroys himself trying to become worthy of her love.

4.48

56k+

🔨 Working Class Fiction 🏛️ Gilded Age Fiction 💔 Doomed Ambition

Martin Eden 89%

A sailor meets a refined girl and destroys himself trying to become worthy of her love.

by Jack London 1909

4.48

56k+ ratings

🔨 Working Class Fiction 🏛️ Gilded Age Fiction 💔 Doomed Ambition

The House of Blue Leaves

by John Guare • 1971

In Queens, a zookeeper chases Hollywood, pushed by his mistress, as his ailing wife unravels.

3.81

2k+

🎭 Absurdist Dark Comedy ✨ Hollywood Dreams 🧠 Mental Illness

The House of Blue Leaves 88%

In Queens, a zookeeper chases Hollywood, pushed by his mistress, as his ailing wife unravels.

by John Guare 1971

3.81

2k+ ratings

🎭 Absurdist Dark Comedy ✨ Hollywood Dreams 🧠 Mental Illness

Breaking Bad and Philosophy

by David R. Koepsell • 2012

A philosophy class uses Walter White to dissect moral rot, freedom, and the American Dream.

3.30

274

🎬 Media Philosophy 📺 Tv Criticism ⚖️ Applied Ethics

Breaking Bad and Philosophy 88%

A philosophy class uses Walter White to dissect moral rot, freedom, and the American Dream.

by David R. Koepsell 2012

3.30

274 ratings

🎬 Media Philosophy 📺 Tv Criticism ⚖️ Applied Ethics

[The Music of Chance] [By

by Paul Auster • 1990

A poker loss traps a drifter building a stone wall to buy back his freedom.

3.93

14k+

🖤 Existential Fiction 🏰 Kafkaesque Nightmare 🚗 Aimless Road Trip

[The Music of Chance] [By 88%

A poker loss traps a drifter building a stone wall to buy back his freedom.

by Paul Auster 1990

3.93

14k+ ratings

🖤 Existential Fiction 🏰 Kafkaesque Nightmare 🚗 Aimless Road Trip

Behold the Dreamers

by Imbolo Mbue • 2016

A Cameroonian family's American dream rests on a Wall Street job, until the 2008 collapse.

3.94

86k+

🌍 Immigrant Experience 🏚️ American Dream Myth 💸 Class Disparity

Behold the Dreamers 87%

A Cameroonian family's American dream rests on a Wall Street job, until the 2008 collapse.

by Imbolo Mbue 2016

3.94

86k+ ratings

🌍 Immigrant Experience 🏚️ American Dream Myth 💸 Class Disparity

How Not to Get Rich

by Alan Pell Crawford • 2014

Before he was America's most beloved author, Mark Twain was its most disastrous investor.

3.63

123

🏦 Financial Biography 🎩 Gilded Age ✍️ Literary Biography

How Not to Get Rich 87%

Before he was America's most beloved author, Mark Twain was its most disastrous investor.

by Alan Pell Crawford 2014

3.63

123 ratings

🏦 Financial Biography 🎩 Gilded Age ✍️ Literary Biography

The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair • 1906

A Lithuanian family finds the American dream is a slaughterhouse that breaks everyone who enters it.

3.78

156k+

🛂 Immigrant Struggle ⚒️ Labor Rights 😔 Relentless Despair

The Jungle 87%

A Lithuanian family finds the American dream is a slaughterhouse that breaks everyone who enters it.

by Upton Sinclair 1906

3.78

156k+ ratings

🛂 Immigrant Struggle ⚒️ Labor Rights 😔 Relentless Despair

Appointment in Samarra

by John O'Hara • 1934

One drunken insult at the country club: a Cadillac dealer learns his small town never forgets.

3.81

16k+

🏘️ American Small Town 📋 Social Realism 📉 Downward Spiral

Appointment in Samarra 87%

One drunken insult at the country club: a Cadillac dealer learns his small town never forgets.

by John O'Hara 1934

3.81

16k+ ratings

🏘️ American Small Town 📋 Social Realism 📉 Downward Spiral

The Mandibles

by Lionel Shriver • 2016

The Mandibles waited decades for an inheritance that disappears the night America defaults.

3.71

12k+

🏚️ Economic Collapse 💸 Failed Inheritance 👁️ Surveillance State

The Mandibles 87%

The Mandibles waited decades for an inheritance that disappears the night America defaults.

by Lionel Shriver 2016

3.71

12k+ ratings

🏚️ Economic Collapse 💸 Failed Inheritance 👁️ Surveillance State

Typical American

by Gish Jen • 1991

An immigrant family stakes its future on a con man's fried chicken empire.

3.43

2k+

🧧 Immigrant Family Saga 🥀 Broken American Dream 🃏 Charismatic Con Man

Typical American 87%

An immigrant family stakes its future on a con man's fried chicken empire.

by Gish Jen 1991

3.43

2k+ ratings

🧧 Immigrant Family Saga 🥀 Broken American Dream 🃏 Charismatic Con Man

Rich Man, Poor Man

by Irwin Shaw • 1970

Immigrant baker's three children chase success from a gritty Hudson town, but violence haunts them.

4.19

39k+

📖 Family Saga 🧬 Generational Trauma 🗽 American Dream

Rich Man, Poor Man 87%

Immigrant baker's three children chase success from a gritty Hudson town, but violence haunts them.

by Irwin Shaw 1970

4.19

39k+ ratings

📖 Family Saga 🧬 Generational Trauma 🗽 American Dream

Coming Apart

by Charles Murray • 2012

Post-1963, the working class unraveled while a new elite sealed itself away.

3.81

6k+

🧱 Class Divide 📉 Cultural Decline 🤝 Social Capital

Coming Apart 87%

Post-1963, the working class unraveled while a new elite sealed itself away.

by Charles Murray 2012

3.81

6k+ ratings

🧱 Class Divide 📉 Cultural Decline 🤝 Social Capital

America

by Chris Hedges • 2018

Addiction, casinos, and the death of work: the symptoms of late capitalism's terminal stage.

4.23

3k+

🛒 Late Capitalism 🇺🇸 American Decline 💊 Opioid Crisis

America 87%

Addiction, casinos, and the death of work: the symptoms of late capitalism's terminal stage.

by Chris Hedges 2018

4.23

3k+ ratings

🛒 Late Capitalism 🇺🇸 American Decline 💊 Opioid Crisis

Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates • 1961

Frank and April Wheeler are sure they're exceptional. Their suburban marriage says otherwise.

3.93

94k+

📚 Midcentury American Fiction 🏡 Suburban Disillusionment 💔 Marriage As Prison

Revolutionary Road 87%

Frank and April Wheeler are sure they're exceptional. Their suburban marriage says otherwise.

by Richard Yates 1961

3.93

94k+ ratings

📚 Midcentury American Fiction 🏡 Suburban Disillusionment 💔 Marriage As Prison

On Paradise Drive

by David Brooks • 2005

The future is America's home: a restless chase that never ends, consuming dreams along the way.

3.58

814

🏘️ Suburban America 🚗 Exurban Sprawl 🧩 Social Fragmentation

On Paradise Drive 87%

The future is America's home: a restless chase that never ends, consuming dreams along the way.

by David Brooks 2005

3.58

814 ratings

🏘️ Suburban America 🚗 Exurban Sprawl 🧩 Social Fragmentation

(The Unconsoled) [By

by Kazuo Ishiguro • 1995

A pianist is summoned to save a city through music, but he cannot find the stage.

3.59

19k+

🔮 Dream Logic 🎹 Artist In Crisis 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

(The Unconsoled) [By 87%

A pianist is summoned to save a city through music, but he cannot find the stage.

by Kazuo Ishiguro 1995

3.59

19k+ ratings

🔮 Dream Logic 🎹 Artist In Crisis 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

by Joan Didion • 1968

At the continent's edge, the American dream frays into murder, lost children, self-deception.

4.18

85k+

✍️ New Journalism 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🌸 California Counterculture

Slouching Towards Bethlehem 87%

At the continent's edge, the American dream frays into murder, lost children, self-deception.

by Joan Didion 1968

4.18

85k+ ratings

✍️ New Journalism 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🌸 California Counterculture

All My Sons

by Arthur Miller • 1947

A family's WWII secret threatens to tear them apart when the missing son's fiancee returns.

3.92

31k+

🎭 Family Drama 🏚️ Domestic Tragedy ⚔️ Father-Son Conflict

All My Sons 87%

A family's WWII secret threatens to tear them apart when the missing son's fiancee returns.

by Arthur Miller 1947

3.92

31k+ ratings

🎭 Family Drama 🏚️ Domestic Tragedy ⚔️ Father-Son Conflict

Paper Girl

by Beth Macy • 2025

A Pell Grant was her exit from working-class Ohio. Four decades later, the road is closed.

4.02

11k+

🏡 Rural America 👷 Working-Class Memoir 🏭 Post-Industrial Decline

Paper Girl 87%

A Pell Grant was her exit from working-class Ohio. Four decades later, the road is closed.

by Beth Macy 2025

4.02

11k+ ratings

🏡 Rural America 👷 Working-Class Memoir 🏭 Post-Industrial Decline

The Financial Lives of the Poets

by Jess Walter • 2009

A broke financial poet facing foreclosure runs one last scheme: selling marijuana to his neighbors.

3.72

12k+

💸 Financial Satire 🏘️ Suburban Dark Comedy 💔 Crumbling Marriage

The Financial Lives of the Poets Summary

The Financial Lives of the Poets 87%

A broke financial poet facing foreclosure runs one last scheme: selling marijuana to his neighbors.

by Jess Walter 2009

3.72

12k+ ratings

💸 Financial Satire 🏘️ Suburban Dark Comedy 💔 Crumbling Marriage

Ham on Rye

by Charles Bukowski • 1982

His father rages, his skin erupts in boils; 1930s LA offers no escape except the library.

4.14

120k+

🏚️ Dirty Realism 📖 Autobiographical Fiction 🏠 Dysfunctional Family

Ham on Rye 87%

His father rages, his skin erupts in boils; 1930s LA offers no escape except the library.

by Charles Bukowski 1982

4.14

120k+ ratings

🏚️ Dirty Realism 📖 Autobiographical Fiction 🏠 Dysfunctional Family

The Natural

by Bernard Malamud • 1952

A baseball prodigy returns at 34, but a cold woman and a bookie's fix threaten his last shot.

3.61

13k+

🖤 Literary Baseball 🦅 American Myth 💋 Femme Fatale

The Natural 87%

A baseball prodigy returns at 34, but a cold woman and a bookie's fix threaten his last shot.

by Bernard Malamud 1952

3.61

13k+ ratings

🖤 Literary Baseball 🦅 American Myth 💋 Femme Fatale

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald • 1922

Parties, gin, and the long wait for an inheritance hollow out a golden Jazz Age couple.

3.73

66k+

🗽 Jazz Age Novel 💔 Doomed Love 💰 Idle Rich

The Beautiful and Damned 86%

Parties, gin, and the long wait for an inheritance hollow out a golden Jazz Age couple.

by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1922

3.73

66k+ ratings

🗽 Jazz Age Novel 💔 Doomed Love 💰 Idle Rich

Last Exit to Brooklyn

by Hubert Selby Jr. • 1964

Drag queens and dockworkers in 1950s Brooklyn seek a tenderness their world is built to crush.

3.95

33k+

🚬 Transgressive Fiction 🌃 1950s Brooklyn 🥀 Doomed Queer Longing

Last Exit to Brooklyn 86%

Drag queens and dockworkers in 1950s Brooklyn seek a tenderness their world is built to crush.

by Hubert Selby Jr. 1964

3.95

33k+ ratings

🚬 Transgressive Fiction 🌃 1950s Brooklyn 🥀 Doomed Queer Longing

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller • 1949

A beaten-down traveling salesman returns home to a family that can no longer sustain his lies.

3.59

261k+

🏠 Domestic Tragedy 👥 Father-Son Conflict 🕰️ Midlife Unraveling

Death of a Salesman 86%

A beaten-down traveling salesman returns home to a family that can no longer sustain his lies.

by Arthur Miller 1949

3.59

261k+ ratings

🏠 Domestic Tragedy 👥 Father-Son Conflict 🕰️ Midlife Unraveling

The Last Romantics

by Tara Conklin • 2019

After their father dies and their mother retreats, four siblings raise themselves in feral freedom.

3.70

49k+

💔 Parental Neglect ⭐ Golden Boy Downfall ✍️ Writer Narrator

The Last Romantics 86%

After their father dies and their mother retreats, four siblings raise themselves in feral freedom.

by Tara Conklin 2019

3.70

49k+ ratings

💔 Parental Neglect ⭐ Golden Boy Downfall ✍️ Writer Narrator

Mr. Bridge

by Evan S. Connell • 1969

A Kansas City attorney orders his family's life with quiet precision, mistaking provision for love.

4.00

3k+

📖 Character Study 🎩 Novel Of Manners 👔 Repressed Patriarch

Mr. Bridge 86%

A Kansas City attorney orders his family's life with quiet precision, mistaking provision for love.

by Evan S. Connell 1969

4.00

3k+ ratings

📖 Character Study 🎩 Novel Of Manners 👔 Repressed Patriarch

American Made

by Farah Stockman • 2021

Three factory workers lost their jobs to Mexico. What they lost next surprised everyone but them.

4.31

1k+

🏭 Deindustrialization 🏚️ Rust Belt 👷 Working Class America

American Made 86%

Three factory workers lost their jobs to Mexico. What they lost next surprised everyone but them.

by Farah Stockman 2021

4.31

1k+ ratings

🏭 Deindustrialization 🏚️ Rust Belt 👷 Working Class America

Amerika

by Franz Kafka • 1927

At seventeen, Karl is exiled to America, where every promise of help comes with invisible strings.

3.74

35k+

🏛️ Kafkaesque 🚢 Immigrant Odyssey 🎒 Picaresque Adventures

Amerika 86%

At seventeen, Karl is exiled to America, where every promise of help comes with invisible strings.

by Franz Kafka 1927

3.74

35k+ ratings

🏛️ Kafkaesque 🚢 Immigrant Odyssey 🎒 Picaresque Adventures

Crash Course

by Paul Ingrassia • 2009

Mass production built Detroit. It also built the complacency that undid it, fifty years later.

3.91

686

🚗 Automotive Industry 🏭 Industrial Decline 🇺🇸 American Manufacturing

Crash Course 86%

Mass production built Detroit. It also built the complacency that undid it, fifty years later.

by Paul Ingrassia 2009

3.91

686 ratings

🚗 Automotive Industry 🏭 Industrial Decline 🇺🇸 American Manufacturing

Show Don't Tell

by Curtis Sittenfeld • 2025

Twelve stories exposing the hunger, hypocrisy, and heartbreak of ordinary life.

3.89

18k+

🎭 Social Satire 🕰️ Midlife Reflection ⚔️ Ambition And Envy

Show Don't Tell 86%

Twelve stories exposing the hunger, hypocrisy, and heartbreak of ordinary life.

by Curtis Sittenfeld 2025

3.89

18k+ ratings

🎭 Social Satire 🕰️ Midlife Reflection ⚔️ Ambition And Envy

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

by John Fante • 1938

Starving in a Colorado shack, an Italian bricklayer abandons his family for a widow's bed.

4.10

15k+

🧳 Immigrant Hardship 🙏 Catholic Guilt 💔 Troubled Marriage

Wait Until Spring, Bandini 86%

Starving in a Colorado shack, an Italian bricklayer abandons his family for a widow's bed.

by John Fante 1938

4.10

15k+ ratings

🧳 Immigrant Hardship 🙏 Catholic Guilt 💔 Troubled Marriage

Love Is a Dog from Hell

by Charles Bukowski • 1977

What if love is not the answer but the sickness? Bukowski's poems treat it as terminal.

3.95

39k+

🖊️ Confessional Poetry 🏚️ Dirty Realism 🍺 Alcoholism

Love Is a Dog from Hell 86%

What if love is not the answer but the sickness? Bukowski's poems treat it as terminal.

by Charles Bukowski 1977

3.95

39k+ ratings

🖊️ Confessional Poetry 🏚️ Dirty Realism 🍺 Alcoholism

Christ in Concrete

by Pietro Di Donato • 1937

A father buried in concrete. His twelve-year-old son must now lay brick to feed the family.

3.76

1k+

🧱 Labor Fiction 🧳 Immigrant Labor 👦 Child Breadwinner

Christ in Concrete 86%

A father buried in concrete. His twelve-year-old son must now lay brick to feed the family.

by Pietro Di Donato 1937

3.76

1k+ ratings

🧱 Labor Fiction 🧳 Immigrant Labor 👦 Child Breadwinner

The Stoic

by Theodore Dreiser • 1947

His empire crumbling, an American financier stakes everything on London and a much younger muse.

4.35

3k+

🏭 Naturalist Fiction 💰 Gilded Age 📈 Social Climbing

The Stoic 86%

His empire crumbling, an American financier stakes everything on London and a much younger muse.

by Theodore Dreiser 1947

4.35

3k+ ratings

🏭 Naturalist Fiction 💰 Gilded Age 📈 Social Climbing

Hillbilly Elegy

by J.D. Vance • 2016

Poverty teaches a lesson that keeps you poor: your effort doesn't matter.

3.83

508k+

⛰️ Appalachian Memoir 🏭 White Working Class 🧸 Childhood Adversity

Hillbilly Elegy 86%

Poverty teaches a lesson that keeps you poor: your effort doesn't matter.

by J.D. Vance 2016

3.83

508k+ ratings

⛰️ Appalachian Memoir 🏭 White Working Class 🧸 Childhood Adversity

The Liberal Tradition in America

by Louis Hartz • 1955

Skipping feudalism made America free, and that freedom imprisoned it inside a single idea.

3.63

158

🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🤝 Liberal Consensus 🐑 Political Conformity

The Liberal Tradition in America Summary

The Liberal Tradition in America 86%

Skipping feudalism made America free, and that freedom imprisoned it inside a single idea.

by Louis Hartz 1955

3.63

158 ratings

🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🤝 Liberal Consensus 🐑 Political Conformity

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald • 1925

Gatsby's mansion teemed with strangers. The woman he loved was across the bay, married to another.

3.93

6.0M+

🥂 Roaring Twenties 💔 Obsessive Love 👁️ Unreliable Narrator

The Great Gatsby 86%

Gatsby's mansion teemed with strangers. The woman he loved was across the bay, married to another.

by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925

3.93

6.0M+ ratings

🥂 Roaring Twenties 💔 Obsessive Love 👁️ Unreliable Narrator

Bereketli Topraklar Üzerinde

by Orhan Kemal • 1954

Three men walk to the cotton mills carrying blankets on their backs and wages in their heads.

4.21

2k+

📖 Social Realism 🚶 Rural Migration ⚒️ Worker Exploitation

Bereketli Topraklar Üzerinde 86%

Three men walk to the cotton mills carrying blankets on their backs and wages in their heads.

by Orhan Kemal 1954

4.21

2k+ ratings

📖 Social Realism 🚶 Rural Migration ⚒️ Worker Exploitation

The Game

by Jack London • 1905

A boxer promises his bride one last fight. She disguises herself as a man to watch.

3.73

2k+

🖤 Tragic Romance 🥊 Boxing Drama 🎭 Naturalist Tragedy

The Game 86%

A boxer promises his bride one last fight. She disguises herself as a man to watch.

by Jack London 1905

3.73

2k+ ratings

🖤 Tragic Romance 🥊 Boxing Drama 🎭 Naturalist Tragedy

Twilight of the Elites

by Christopher L. Hayes • 2012

Why meritocracy always becomes a rigged game, a distant elite, and a trust crisis.

3.99

6k+

🏛️ Meritocracy Critique 💰 Economic Inequality 🏰 Elite Disconnect

Twilight of the Elites 86%

Why meritocracy always becomes a rigged game, a distant elite, and a trust crisis.

by Christopher L. Hayes 2012

3.99

6k+ ratings

🏛️ Meritocracy Critique 💰 Economic Inequality 🏰 Elite Disconnect

Atlas Shrugged Part B

by Ayn Rand • 1957

A railroad VP hunts a vanished inventor as the state devours its creators and industry collapses.

4.37

3k+

📚 Philosophical Fiction 🏚️ Dystopian Collapse 🎭 Political Allegory

Atlas Shrugged Part B 86%

A railroad VP hunts a vanished inventor as the state devours its creators and industry collapses.

by Ayn Rand 1957

4.37

3k+ ratings

📚 Philosophical Fiction 🏚️ Dystopian Collapse 🎭 Political Allegory

Suicide of a Superpower

by Patrick J. Buchanan • 2011

America didn't fall; it jumped. The ideas shredding it are its own choices, not enemy blows.

4.05

844

📉 American Decline 🏛️ Paleoconservatism 🏭 Economic Nationalism

Suicide of a Superpower 86%

America didn't fall; it jumped. The ideas shredding it are its own choices, not enemy blows.

by Patrick J. Buchanan 2011

4.05

844 ratings

📉 American Decline 🏛️ Paleoconservatism 🏭 Economic Nationalism

Ask the Dust

by John Fante • 1939

An impoverished writer in 1930s Los Angeles meets a waitress whose scorn and need mirror his own.

4.10

40k+

🏙️ 1930s Los Angeles 🎨 Starving Artist 💔 Obsessive Love

Ask the Dust 86%

An impoverished writer in 1930s Los Angeles meets a waitress whose scorn and need mirror his own.

by John Fante 1939

4.10

40k+ ratings

🏙️ 1930s Los Angeles 🎨 Starving Artist 💔 Obsessive Love

Freedom

by Jonathan Franzen • 2010

Patty Berglund has the perfect liberal life, until her husband's best friend moves back to town.

3.80

176k+

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 🇺🇸 Great American Novel 💔 Unhappy Marriage

Freedom 86%

Patty Berglund has the perfect liberal life, until her husband's best friend moves back to town.

by Jonathan Franzen 2010

3.80

176k+ ratings

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 🇺🇸 Great American Novel 💔 Unhappy Marriage

Less Than Zero

by Bret Easton Ellis • 1985

Home from college, Clay drifts through LA parties where the glamour hides something rotting.

3.61

102k+

🖤 Transgressive Fiction 💸 Rich Kid Ennui 👁️ Passive Narrator

Less Than Zero 86%

Home from college, Clay drifts through LA parties where the glamour hides something rotting.

by Bret Easton Ellis 1985

3.61

102k+ ratings

🖤 Transgressive Fiction 💸 Rich Kid Ennui 👁️ Passive Narrator

The Fountainhead

by Ayn Rand • 1943

An architect who refuses to imitate faces a society determined to crush his vision.

3.89

339k+

🧠 Philosophical Novel 🏛️ Architectural Fiction ⚔️ Genius Vs Society

The Fountainhead 86%

An architect who refuses to imitate faces a society determined to crush his vision.

by Ayn Rand 1943

3.89

339k+ ratings

🧠 Philosophical Novel 🏛️ Architectural Fiction ⚔️ Genius Vs Society

Big Sur

by Jack Kerouac • 1962

A writer escapes his celebrity to a Big Sur cabin, where solitude unravels into madness.

3.83

38k+

🥁 Beat Generation 📖 Autofiction 🎨 Tortured Artist

Big Sur 86%

A writer escapes his celebrity to a Big Sur cabin, where solitude unravels into madness.

by Jack Kerouac 1962

3.83

38k+ ratings

🥁 Beat Generation 📖 Autofiction 🎨 Tortured Artist

Survivor

by Chuck Palahniuk • 1999

A cult survivor turned media star hijacks a plane to confess his life before it crashes.

3.93

125k+

🖤 Transgressive Fiction 🔥 Cult Survival 📺 Media Satire

Survivor 86%

A cult survivor turned media star hijacks a plane to confess his life before it crashes.

by Chuck Palahniuk 1999

3.93

125k+ ratings

🖤 Transgressive Fiction 🔥 Cult Survival 📺 Media Satire

Glass House

by Brian Alexander • 2017

Private equity bought a glass factory. By the time they were done, a town was destroyed.

3.91

2k+

🏭 Deindustrialization 💰 Private Equity 💊 Opioid Epidemic

Glass House 86%

Private equity bought a glass factory. By the time they were done, a town was destroyed.

by Brian Alexander 2017

3.91

2k+ ratings

🏭 Deindustrialization 💰 Private Equity 💊 Opioid Epidemic

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