George Packer: 11 books
by George Packer
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
An acclaimed journalist and novelist explores the legacy and future of American liberalism through the history of his family's politically active history
George Packer's maternal grandfather, George Huddleston, was a populist congressman from Alabama in the early part of the century--an agrarian...
The Unwinding
An Inner History of the New America
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The 2013 National Book Award Winner
A New York Times Bestseller
Selected by New York Times' critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite Book of 2013
A New York Times Notable Book of 2013
A Washington Post Best Political Book of 2013
An NPR Best Book of 2013
A New Republic Best Book of 2013
One of Publishers...
Interesting Times
Writings from a Turbulent Decade
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
The 2013 National Book Award Winner
A New York Times Bestseller
Throughout his career as a journalist, George Packer has always been attuned to the voices and stories of individuals caught up in the big ideas and events of contemporary history. Interesting Times unites brilliant investigative...
Betrayed
A Play
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Based on George Packer's account in The New Yorker, Betrayed is a riveting and morally complex drama that explores in the Iraqis' own words the ways in which we have already abandoned them.
Millions of Iraqis, spanning the country's religious and ethnic spectrum, welcomed the overthrow of Saddam...
De ontluistering van Amerika
een geschiedenis van het nieuwe Amerika van binnenuit
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Hoe laat je zien wat er in een land gebeurt? George Packer ging praten met Amerikanen uit alle geledingen van de samenleving omdat hij wilde weten wat de crisis nou écht betekent. Dus sprak hij met fabrieksarbeider Tammy Thomas, onvermoeibaar ondernemer Dean Price en Silicon Valley-wonderkind Peter...
The Assassins' Gate
America in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
THE ASSASSINS' GATE: AMERICA IN IRAQ recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerilla war in Iraq. It brings to life the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's War on Terror policy and led America to the Assassins'...
by George Packer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, The Village of Waiting is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa. Stationed as a Peace Corps instructor in the village of Lavié (the name means "wait a little more")...
by Scott L. Malcomson; George Packer
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
As we approach the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we have a chance to see more clearly how they were a turning point in Americas relationship with the world. America became more assertive abroad; its authority and legitimacy as the only superpower became more widely opposed; and the limitations...
Our Man
Richard Holbrooke - het symbool van de Amerikaanse buitenlandse politiek van de afgelopen decennia
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Richard Holbrooke
Briljant maar zelfingenomen, geliefd maar ook gehaat. De Amerikaanse diplomaat Richard Holbrooke (1941-2010) was een man vol tegenstrijdigheden, die uitgroeide tot een van de meest bepalende figuren in de recente Amerikaanse geschiedenis. En toch vervulde hij nooit zijn ambitie om...
Die Abwicklung
Eine innere Geschichte des neuen Amerika
Language: German
Release Date: July 24, 2014
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013 und SPIEGEL-BESTSELLERNiemand kann mit Sicherheit sagen, wann die Abwicklung begann – wann die Bürger Amerikas zum ersten Mal spürten, dass die Bande sich lösten. Dass der Glaube an die gemeinsame Zukunft nicht mehr gültig ist. Doch irgendwann bemerkten es alle: Tammy,...
Our Man
Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
**"Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic history and a Shakespearean tragicomedy... If you could read one book to comprehend American's foreign policy and its quixotic forays into quicksands over the past 50 years, this would be...