The Assassins` Gate: America in Iraq, Packer George

Автор: Packer George
Название: The Assassins` Gate
ISBN: 057123044X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571230440
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: The Assassins` Gate recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. The consequences of that policy are shown in the author`s vivid reporting on the ground in Iraq, where he made several tours on assignment for The New Yorker.

Автор: George Packer
Название: Blood of the Liberals
ISBN: 0374527784 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374527785
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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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 liberal in the Jacksonian mold who opposed the New Deal. Packer's father was a Kennedy-era liberal, a law professor and dean at Stanford whose convictions were sorely--and ultimately fatally--tested in the campus upheavals of the 1960s. The inheritor of two sometimes conflicting strains of the great American liberal tradition, Packer discusses the testing of ideals in the lives of his father and grandfather and his own struggle to understand the place of the progressive tradition in our currently polarized political climate. Searching, engrossing, and persuasive, Blood of the Liberals is an original, intimate examination of the meaning of politics in American lives.

Автор: Packer George
Название: The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
ISBN: 0374534608 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374534608
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
Цена: 1471.00 р.
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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
One of Amazon's Best Books 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 Weekly"'s Best Nonfiction Books of 2013
A "Kirkus Reviews "Best Nonfiction Book of 2013
A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation
American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward. In "The Unwinding," George Packer, author of "The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq," tells the story of the United States over the past three decades in an utterly original way, with his characteristically sharp eye for detail and gift for weaving together complex narratives.
" The Unwinding "journeys through the lives of several Americans, including Dean Price, the son of tobacco farmers, who becomes an evangelist for a new economy in the rural South; Tammy Thomas, a factory worker in the Rust Belt trying to survive the collapse of her city; Jeff Connaughton, a Washington insider oscillating between political idealism and the lure of organized money; and Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire who questions the Internet's significance and arrives at a radical vision of the future. Packer interweaves these intimate stories with biographical sketches of the era's leading public figures, from Newt Gingrich to Jay-Z, and collages made from newspaper headlines, advertising slogans, and song lyrics that capture the flow of events and their undercurrents.
" The Unwinding "portrays a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer elite, its institutions no longer working, its ordinary people left to improvise their own schemes for success and salvation. Packer's novelistic and kaleidoscopic history of the new America is his most ambitious work to date.