One Day: The Extraordinary Story Of An Ordinary 24 Hours In America

"Gene Weingarten asked strangers at a bar to pick a day at random out of a green fedora. They chose Dec. 28, 1986. So, Weingarten researched and wrote beautiful, compelling stories about the events of that otherwise average, sleepy Sunday. They are by turns heartfelt, profound, tragic, ironic, funny, cruel and heroic. One even circuitously involves Weingarten’s barber. But above all, each is a deeply human portrait, and a glimpse into an interesting and complicated 24 hours in American history. Weingarten proves, again and again, that he can turn anything and anyone into a story that I would want to read."