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WANG,THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW  \nFULFILLMENTAMERICA IN THE  \nSHADOW OF AMAZ0NALEC MACBILLISWITH A NEW AFTERWORD  \nPICADOR  \n\"What [Fufllment]reveals is a country that has been falling apart for quitesome time,and a company that has been willing and able to turn a failure ofpublic policy into private power...Each chapter of Fulfillment is a beauti-fully written and sometimes overwhelmingly detailed story...The book hassomething in common with classic works that exposed the plight of the poorto those better off,like George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier or MichaelHarrington's The Other America.”  \n—SARAH LEONARD,The New Republic  \n\"MacGillis has set out to do something different.The Amazon depicted inFulfillment is both a cause and a metaphor.It's an actual engine behind theregional inequality that has made parts of the United States ‘incomprehen-sible to one another,'he writes,stymieing a sense of national solidarity...The result is galloping prosperity for some Americans and unrelenting pre-carity for others...MacGillis suggests that one-click satisfactions distract usfrom taking in the bigger picture,whose contours can only be discernedwith a patient and immersive approach.”  \n—JENNIFER SZALAI,The New York Times  \n\"Alec MacGilliss important contribution,in Fulfillment,is to point outthat the key divide is between a sliver of the professional-managerial elite inwinner-takes-all cities and everyone else.The book is a must-read for thoseinterested in what drives economic populism.”  \n—JOAN C.WILLIAMS,The Times Literary Supplement  \n\"A rich sociology of the world that Amazon has made...[MacGillis's]centralstory is about the way that a business that cuts out economic middlemen andshared spaces of commerce and circulation,from brick-and-mortar MainStreets to shopping malls,inherently contributes to our grim geographicpolarization...His overall story has a bleak and ineluctable momentum.”  \n—ROSS DOUTHAT,The New York Times  \n\"MacGillis understands the bargain Amazon offers the public and explores theconsequences of that bargain with a sharp,humane eye.He succeds in tell-ing a story about Amazon from the bottom up—the right way to scrutinizea company that projects a progressive image.”  \n—SARAH JONES,New York  \n\"In his excellent new book,Fulfillment,the journalist Alec MacGillis exam-ines American inequality and economic desperation through the lens ofAmazon's growth and rapid domination.The company almost seems to per-sonify economic imbalances.”  \n—FARHAD MANJ00,The New York Times  \n\"Fulfillment is a reporter's book,told largely through personal stories...Intertwined inequalities,for MacGillis,are the defining feature of the mod-ern US economy...And Amazon,as Fulfillment effectively details,is botha key driving force in this story and a malevolent exemplar of its conse-quences.”  \n—COLIN GORDON,Jacobin  \n“[MacGillis has]a terrific eye for detail...Fulfillment is a sharp-eyed over-view of many of the most profound problems America faces...[The book]is terrifically well-researched,featuring numerous investigative nuggetsabout Amazon.\"  \n—STEVEN GREENHOUSE,Democracy  \n\"Fulfllment is a mind-bogglingly thorough book,a hybrid of urban history,reportage,profile and research on people and places that have been impactedby [Amazon]...MacGillis is equally adept in animating the economic pic-ture...A compendium of tragedies large and small.”  \n—ELIZABETH GREENWOOD,San Francisco Chronicle  \nhttps://archive.org/details/fulfillmentameri0000macg  \n# Praise for Fulfillment\n\n\"Alec MacGillis takes the ubiquity of [Amazon]and blows it up into some-thing on the scale of Homer's Odyssey in his new book...MacGillis's storyis as emotional as it is analytical—he visits characters and industries af-fected by Amazon,demonstrating over and over again that the empire isirreparably changing every aspect of American life as we know it...Some-times the things we see every day become 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