George Packer, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $30 (409p) ISBN 978-0-374-17572-6
Packer (The Assassins' Gate
), staff writer for the New Yorker
, creates an illuminating time capsule for a decade book-ended by the September 11 attacks and Barack Obama's rise to the presidency. Comprising previously published pieces,...
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George Packer, Author Graywolf Press $24.95 (360p) ISBN 978-1-55597-277-6
It is Cambridge, Mass., in November, when ""the sky turns leaden and the clocks have been set back, the larger body dies and the idea of the city becomes a memory, an accident of warm weather."" Into the Central Square of this hauntingly rendered...
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George Packer, Author Vintage Books USA $13 (316p) ISBN 978-0-394-75754-4
In 1982-83, Packer worked for the Peace Corps as an English teacher in the village of Lavie in Togo, West Africa, and here recounts his occasionally comic, more often poignant, and frequently tragic experiences in sharp, descriptive prose. He does...
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George Packer, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $26 (405p) ISBN 978-0-374-25142-0
Journalist and novelist Packer (Central Square) illuminates the evolution of American liberalism by examining three generations of family history in this thoughtful, rueful work. Packer's maternal grandfather, George Huddleston (1869-1960), called...
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George Packer, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (467p) ISBN 978-0-374-29963-7
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Christopher Hitchens
It is extremely uncommon for any reporter to read another's work and to find that he altogether recognizes the scene being described. Reading George Packer's book, I found not only that I was...
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George Packer. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (432p) ISBN 978-0-374-102418
Sometime in the late 1970s, the foundations of the American Century began to unravel. In this trenchant account, New Yorker writer Packer (The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq) charts the erosion of the social compact that kept the country stable...
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George Packer. Knopf, $30 (609p) ISBN 978-0-307-95802-0
A brilliant, abrasive diplomat struggles to resolve foreign conflicts while fighting bureaucratic wars at home in this scintillating biography. New Yorker writer Packer (The Unwinding) follows Holbrooke’s State Department career from his start in...
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George Packer. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-60366-3
Warring tribes are tearing the country apart, according to this conflicted meditation on America's discontents. National Book Award winner Packer (The Unwinding) parses the uproar of 2020 in terms of four competing "narratives" of America: the "Free
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