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Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer
Category: Politics
A short, sharp nonfiction modern classic on the political and societal state of America - how America got into this mess, and how it might get out of it - by one of the world's greatest nonfiction writersAcclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America's descent into a failed ...Show more
Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer
Category: Politics
A short, sharp nonfiction modern classic on the political and societal state of America - how America got into this mess, and how it might get out of it - by one of the world's greatest nonfiction writersAcclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America's descent into a failed ...Show more
Our Man - Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer
Category: Biography
From one of America's greatest non-fiction writers, an epic saga of the rise and fall of American power, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, told through the life of one man. *FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2020* Richard Holbrooke was one of the most legendary and complicated figures in ...Show more
Our Man - Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer
Category: Biography
From one of America's greatest non-fiction writers, an epic saga of the rise and fall of American power, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, told through the life of one man. Richard Holbrooke was one of the most legendary and complicated figures in recent American history. Brilliant, utterly self-absorbed, a ...Show more
Our Man - Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer
Category: Non-Fiction
GERALDINE BROOKS: "The diplomat Richard Holbrooke isn’t a household name in Australia, nor in the US for that matter. So why read this hefty tome? First, because of Packer’s stunningly original style, which redefines and resets the bar for the genre of biography--“Caro on crack,” as one Amazon reade ...Show more
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer
Category: Politics
A "New York Times" BestsellerOne of the iTunes Bookstore's "Ten Books You Must Read This Summer" 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 c ...Show more
The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline by George Packer
Category: Politics
Just over a decade into the new millennium, America is beset by a sense of crisis. The seismic shifts that occurred in the space of a generation have created a country of winners and losers, leaving the social contract in pieces. In The Unwinding, George Packer narrates the story of America over the pas ...Show more
The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline by George Packer
Category: Politics
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION 'Hums - with sorrow, with outrage and with compassion... Close to a non-fiction masterpiece' The New York Times America is in crisis: in a state of unwinding. In the space of a generation the country has become divided between winners and losers, with ...Show more
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