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Get the Summary of Evan Osnos' ‘Wildland’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In search of an explanation for the crisis that reached an unsettling crescendo in 2020-a year of pandemic, civil unrest, and political turmoil-he focused on three places he knew firsthand: Greenwich, Connecticut, Clarksburg, West Virginia, and Chicago, Illinois. Reported over the course of six years, Wildland follows ordinary individuals as they navigate the varied landscapes of twenty-first-century America. Through their powerful, often poignant stories, Osnos traces the sources of America's political dissolution. He finds answers in the rightward shift of the financial elite in Greenwich, in the collapse of social infrastructure and possibility in Clarksburg, and in the compounded effects of segregation and violence in Chicago. The truth about the state of the nation may be found not in the slogans of political leaders but in the intricate details of individual lives, and in the hidden connections between them. As Wildland weaves in and out of these personal stories, events in Washington occasionally intrude, like flames licking up on the horizon.