{"product_id":"the-best-of-times-haynes-bonner-johnson-9780156027014","title":"The Best of Times","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe 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. In 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA James H. Silberman Book\n\u003cbr\u003eNational Bestseller \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow with a New Foreword, Afterword, and Postscript \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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\u003cbr\u003e--Haynes Johnson\n\u003cbr\u003eFrom the new Foreword\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haynes Bonner Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":47063441932531,"sku":"8880002825328","price":20.5,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9780156027014.jpg?v=1749586400","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-best-of-times-haynes-bonner-johnson-9780156027014","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}