{"product_id":"the-best-of-times-the-boom-and-bust-years-of-america-before-and-after-everything-changed-1","title":"The Best of Times: The Boom and Bust Years of America before and after Everything Changed","description":"We were awash in money and spellbound by celebrity and scandal. It was a time of breathtaking strides in science and unprecedented possibility. A time of squandered opportunities and grave distraction. A time of tragic complacency and belief in our invulnerability.\n\nIn The Best of Times, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Haynes Johnson looks back on the decade that defied anyone's expectations, for better or worse. With a sharp eye for the quote or detail that perfectly captures a moment in time, Johnson tells the whole story, no holds barred, of the roller-coaster, self-indulgent nineties when America paid no attention to gathering foreign storms or looming economic collapse.\n\nThe product of four years of interviews with the decade's most influential players, this is in the best tradition of timeless social history--a memorable portrait of the entire wonderful yet woeful decade that ended in the cataclysmic flames of September 11.\n\nA James H. Silberman Book\nNational Bestseller\n\nNow with a New Foreword, Afterword, and Postscript\n\nIn offering this paperback edition of the bubble years, I hope the stories I tell of that newly old America will illuminate how in a few short years we went from the best of times to the worst of times. In my Afterword, I suggest what lessons we must learn from that experience to avoid further disasters and close the circle on some events that typified the period.\n--Haynes Johnson\nFrom the new Foreword\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0156027011\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.0156027011.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Johnson, Haynes\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in good condition with very minimal damage. Pages may have minimal notes or highlighting. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47858618630321,"sku":"RDV.0156027011.G","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/0156027011-0.jpg?v=1787101396","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/the-best-of-times-the-boom-and-bust-years-of-america-before-and-after-everything-changed-1","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}