George Packer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of several books, most recently The Assassins’ Gate (FSG, 2005). His reporting has won four Overseas Press Club awards.
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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...
Millions of Iraqis, spanning the country’s religious and ethnic spectrum, welcomed the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. But the mostly young men and women who...
Named one of the Best Books of 2005 by The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle...
An acclaimed journalist and novelist explores the legacy and future of American liberalism through the history of his family's politically active...
Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, this book is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary...