EAN: 9780593316788

QUIET STREET - NICK MCDONELL GEBUNDEN

A bold and deeply personal exploration of wealth  power  and the American elite  exposing how
the ruling class intentionally or not perpetuates cycles of injustice [A] story about American
inequity  and how it mindlessly  immorally  reproduces itself. Unlike most such stories 
however  this one left me believing in the possibility...of drastic change. Maggie Nelson 
author of On Freedom Nick McDonell grew up on New York City s Upper East Side  a neighborhood
defined by its wealth and influence. As a child  McDonell enjoyed everything that rarefied
world entailed sailing lessons in the Hamptons  school galas at the Met  and holiday trips on
private jets. But as an adult  he left it behind to become a foreign correspondent in Iraq and
Afghanistan. In Quiet Street  McDonell returns to the sidewalks of his youth  exhuming with
bracing honesty his upbringing and those of his affluent peers. From Galápagos Island cruises
and Tanzanian safaris to steely handshakes and schoolyard microaggressions to fox-hunting
rituals and the courtship rites of sexually precocious tweens  McDonell examines the rearing of
the ruling class in scalpel-sharp detail  documenting how wealth and power are hoarded  encoded
and passed down from one generation to the next. What s more  he demonstrates how outsiders the
poor  the nonwhite  the suburban are kept out. Searing and precise yet ultimately full of
compassion  Quiet Street examines the problem of America s one percent  whose vision of a more
just world never materializes. Who are these people? How do they cling to power? What would it
take for them to share it? Quiet Street looks for answers in a universal experience: coming to
terms with the culture that made you.

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