Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade

The 2013 National Book Award Winner A New York Times BestsellerThroughout his career as a journalist, George...
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Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade by Packer, George

Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade

€27,94

Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade

€27,94
Author: George Packer
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The 2013 National Book Award Winner
A New York Times Bestseller

Throughout his career as a journalist, George Packer has always been attuned to the voices and stories of individuals caught up in the big ideas and events of contemporary history. Interesting Times unites brilliant investigative pieces such as Betrayed, about Iraqi interpreters, with personal essays and detailed narratives of travels through war zones and failed states. Spanning a decade that includes the September 11, 2001 attacks and the election of Barack Obama, Packer brings insight and passion to his accounts of the war on terror, Iraq, political writers, and the 2008 election. Across these varied subjects a few key themes recur: the temptations and dangers of idealism; the moral complexities of war and politics; the American capacity for self-blinding and self-renewal.

Whether exploring American policies in the wake of September 11, tracking a used T-shirt from New York to Uganda, or describing the ambivalent response in Appalachia to Obama, these essays hold a mirror up to our own troubled times and showcase Packer's unmistakable perspective, which is at once both wide-angled and humane.

Author: George Packer
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 11/09/2010
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.80w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780374532529

About the Author
GEORGE PACKER is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, which received several prizes and was named one of the ten best books of 2005 by The New York Times Book Review. He is also the author of two novels, The Half Man and Central Square, and two other works of nonfiction, Blood of the Liberals, which won the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and The Village of Waiting. His play, Betrayed, ran for five months in 2008 and won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play. His most recent book is Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century. He lives in Brooklyn.


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