Last Best Hope MOD, George Packer; read by the author
Автор: Packer, George Название: Unwinding ISBN: 1529111587 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529111583 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1979.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: *WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION*`A Great American Novel in the guise of a Great Nonfiction Epic, The Unwinding asks...do we truly like the world we have made for ourselves?` The TimesAmerica is in crisis.
Автор: Packer, George Название: Last Best Hope ISBN: 1787333426 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787333420 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1979.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Drawing on the best of American history - what once made it great - without being trapped in the past, Last Best Hope dares America to step into a new and better era.
Автор: Packer George Название: The Assassins` Gate: America in Iraq ISBN: 0374530556 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374530556 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 1839.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post Book World, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, TheSan Francisco Chronicle Book Review, Los Angeles Times Book Review, USA Today, Time, and New York magazine.
Winner of the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Ryan Award for Best Nonfiction Book on International Affairs
Winner of the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
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 guerrilla war in Iraq. It brings to life the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy and led America to the Assassins' Gate--the main point of entry into the American zone in Baghdad.
The Assassins' Gate also describes the place of the war in American life: the ideological battles in Washington that led to chaos in Iraq, the ordeal of a fallen soldier's family, and the political culture of a country too bitterly polarized to realize such a vast and morally complex undertaking. George Packer's best-selling first-person narrative combines the scope of an epic history with the depth and intimacy of a novel, creating a masterful account of America's most controversial foreign venture since Vietnam.
Автор: Packer George Название: The Assassins` Gate ISBN: 057123044X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571230440 Издательство: Faber Рейтинг: Цена: 1979.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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: Packer George Название: The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America ISBN: 0374534608 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374534608 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Цена: 1471.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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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.
Автор: George Packer Название: Blood of the Liberals ISBN: 0374527784 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374527785 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 1839.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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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: Last best hope ISBN: 1250849306 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250849304 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 1563.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Sir John Lubbock was an English banker who was fascinated with biology and archaeology. First published in 1865, this volume introduced an evolutionary interpretation of archaeology where human cultures evolve to become more sophisticated over time. Lubbock`s interpretation became an extremely influential social theory which was adopted by contemporary archaeologists.
Автор: Nigel Packer; Read by Sean Barrett Название: Restoration of Otto Laird ISBN: 1427278156 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781427278159 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 5517.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Jane Packer Flowers is one of the world`s most influential floristry companies, with a distinctively elegant yet refreshingly modern look.
Автор: Packer George Название: Last Best Hope: The Revival of America ISBN: 0374603669 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374603663 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 2483.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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One of The New York Times's 100 notable books of 2021
[George Packer's] account of America's decline into destructive tribalism is always illuminating and often dazzling. --William Galston, The Washington Post Acclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America's descent into a failed state, and envisions a path toward overcoming our injustices, paralyses, and divides In the year 2020, Americans suffered one rude blow after another to their health, livelihoods, and collective self-esteem. A ruthless pandemic, an inept and malign government response, polarizing protests, and an election marred by conspiracy theories left many citizens in despair about their country and its democratic experiment. With pitiless precision, the year exposed the nation's underlying conditions--discredited elites, weakened institutions, blatant inequalities--and how difficult they are to remedy. In Last Best Hope, George Packer traces the shocks back to their sources. He explores the four narratives that now dominate American life: Free America, which imagines a nation of separate individuals and serves the interests of corporations and the wealthy; Smart America, the world view of Silicon Valley and the professional elite; Real America, the white Christian nationalism of the heartland; and Just America, which sees citizens as members of identity groups that inflict or suffer oppression. In lively and biting prose, Packer shows that none of these narratives can sustain a democracy. To point a more hopeful way forward, he looks for a common American identity and finds it in the passion for equality--the "hidden code"--that Americans of diverse persuasions have held for centuries. Today, we are challenged again to fight for equality and renew what Alexis de Tocqueville called "the art" of self-government. In its strong voice and trenchant analysis, Last Best Hope is an essential contribution to the literature of national renewal.
Автор: Packer, George Название: Our Man ISBN: 0307958027 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307958020 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 2759.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: From the award-winning author of The Unwinding--the brilliantly told saga of the ambition, idealism, and hubris of one of the most legendary and complicated figures in recent American history, set amid the rise and fall of U.S. power from Vietnam to Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, utterly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites. Admired and detested, he was the force behind the Dayton Accords that ended the Balkan wars, America's greatest diplomatic achievement in the post-Cold War era. His power lay in an utter belief in himself and his idea of a muscular, generous foreign policy. From his days as a young adviser in Vietnam to his last efforts to end the war in Afghanistan, Holbrooke embodied the postwar American impulse to take the lead on the global stage. But his sharp elbows and tireless self-promotion ensured that he never rose to the highest levels in government that he so desperately coveted. His story is thus the story of America during its era of supremacy: its strength, drive, and sense of possibility, as well as its penchant for overreach and heedless self-confidence. In Our Man, drawn from Holbrooke's diaries and papers, we are given a nonfiction narrative that is both intimate and epic in its revelatory portrait of this extraordinary and deeply flawed man and the elite spheres of society and government he inhabited.
Автор: George Packer; Read by Robert Fass Название: Unwinding ISBN: 1427237441 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781427237446 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 6160.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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