“Splendid...[Packer] skillfully weaves the travails of the reformist left through the equally tempetuous story of his own activist family. The result is a politically engaged memoir that sheds more understanding on the problems and promise of liberalism than a shelf full of hand-wringing or wistful post-mortems.”—Michael Kazin, Chicago Tribune

“Remarkable...Belongs on the shelf next to Angela's Ashes, The Liars' Club, and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.”—Jack Hitt, The New York Times Book Review

“Blood of The Liberals is coherent, compelling and desperately urgent.”—Wilson Carey McWilliams, San Francisco Chronicle

“I've never read a book quite like George Packer's Blood of the Liberals. More than a learned history and revealing memoir, it's also an unsentimental but deeply felt love letter to the father he barely knew and the grandfather he never met. Packer shows American liberals where we've been and where we must go by sharing his story—a story that is heartbreaking, hopeful, and beautifully drawn.”—George Stephanopoulos