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Weingarten is a journalist who came up with the idea of writing a book about a single day in America. After setting some parameters so the date was not too far in the past to find people to interview nor too recent he plucked a random day out of a hat and wound up with December 28, 1986. He then sets about telling the stories of things that happened to people on that day around the country from small personal things that changed individual lives like beating a video game to bigger things like local murders that never made the national spotlight but no doubt had lasting impacts. Sometimes he tells the story of just what happened on that day and other times he uses it as a spring board to talk about the lives of people farther into the future and how something that happened on that day influenced where their lives ended up. Some stuff it was very obvious how he could have found the stories he pursued just by searching headlines in newspaper databases for that day. Others I'm very curious how he even found out about what he was writing about because save for one story he never tells you. It's a fascinating book and a real look at how big things are happening in people's lives every day even when they don't constitute big news events.