Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America

"America has been sorted into “winner-take-all” places and “left-behind” places – and the two are increasingly isolated, struggling to comprehend the divide. That’s the story that unfolds in Alec MacGillis’ Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America. MacGillis, a reporter for ProPublica, had set off to write about U.S. regional disparities and chose Amazon as connective tissue. The narrative does not directly criticize or offer solutions. It lays out an economic history of the U.S. through hyper-detailed portraits of people and companies in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Ohio, Pennsylvania and other parts of the country – told with the flair of an investigative magazine writer."