George Packer

We have arrived at a critical moment in American history. The United States is divided; its democracy is shaken. But all is not lost. Last Best Hope is a riveting, urgent, clear-sighted analysis of how America got here and how it can move forward....

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....

An acclaimed journalist and novelist explores the legacy and future of American liberalism through the history of his family's politically active history. Searching, engrossing, and persuasive, this is an original, intimate examination of the meaning of politics in American lives....

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....

Betrayed is the story of three young Iraqi translators who risk everything for America's promise of freedom while their country collapses around them....

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....