false 49986 87119 0374530556 9780374530556 90 <![CDATA[The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171099197m/87119.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171099197s/87119.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87119.The_Assassins_Gate_America_in_Iraq 4.12 504 The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The New York Times Book Review, USA Today, Time, and New York magazine.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV> 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. </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>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.</DIV></DIV></DIV>]]> 49986 4.09 759 144 2005 177411 0374527806 9780374527808 19 <![CDATA[The Village of Waiting]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172448343m/177411.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172448343s/177411.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/177411.The_Village_of_Waiting 3.99 89 ]]> 49986 4.09 759 144 1990 3418535 0151013616 9780151013616 11 <![CDATA[Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235199900m/3418535.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235199900s/3418535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3418535.Facing_Unpleasant_Facts_Narrative_Essays 4.27 44

Facing Unpleasant Facts charts Orwell's development as a master of the narrative-essay form and unites classics such as "Shooting an Elephant" with lesser-known journalism and passages from his wartime diary. Whether detailing the horrors of Orwell's boyhood in an English boarding school or bringing to life the sights, sounds, and smells of the Spanish Civil War, these narrative essays weave together the personal and the political in an unmistakable style that is at once plainspoken and brilliantly complex.

</DIV>]]> 3706 3.88 404242 14069 49986 4.09 759 144 1999 3339527 0151013551 9780151013555 8 <![CDATA[All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235199770m/3339527.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235199770s/3339527.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3339527.All_Art_Is_Propaganda_Critical_Essays 4.09 44 3706 3.88 404242 14069 49986 4.09 759 144 39840 3.04 583 186 2008 217990 0374527784 9780374527785 5 <![CDATA[Blood of the Liberals]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1212950928m/217990.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1212950928s/217990.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217990.Blood_of_the_Liberals 3.81 26
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, this is an original, intimate examination of the meaning of politics in American lives.
</div>]]> 49986 4.09 759 144 2000 217991 0060532491 9780060532499 1 <![CDATA[The Fight Is for Democracy: Winning the War of Ideas in America and the World]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172792259m/217991.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172792259s/217991.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217991.The_Fight_Is_for_Democracy_Winning_the_War_of_Ideas_in_America_and_the_World 4.00 5 Americans aren't fighting just a war on terrorism ... they are fighting, and losing, a war of ideas.

This riveting collection of original essays by some of the best political minds in America argues that the post-September 11 era has put American democracy itself on trial. In short, defeating terrorism requires us to live up to our own ideals. In The Fight Is for Democracy, nine leading writers take a hard, and at times personal, look at American life and America's role in the world. These pieces share a belief in the need for liberal reform at home and abroad. Power alone is not enough to win hearts and minds around the world. The war against terrorism should be a war for democracy.

Edited and with an Introduction by George Packer, The Fight Is for Democracy pushes the national debate in provocative new directions with essays on:

<ul> <li>Domestic politics and foreign policy -- Michael Tomasky, political columnist for New York magazine

<li>Human rights and intervention -- Laura Secor, Boston Globe staff writer

<li>Secularism -- Vijay Seshadri, author and professor at Sarah Lawrence College

<li>Patriotism -- Todd Gitlin, author and professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University

<li>Politics in the Arab World -- Kanan Makiya, author and professor at Brandeis University

<li>Intellectuals and American culture -- Susie Linfield, associate director of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York University

<li>Globalization -- William Finnegan, staff writer at The New Yorker

<li>Economic inequality -- Jeff Madrick, editor of Challenge magazine

<li>Liberalism and terror -- Paul Berman, contributing editor of The New Republic </ul>]]> 49986 4.09 759 144 2003 2145541 0865479917 9780865479913 1 <![CDATA[Betrayed: A Play]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2145541.Betrayed_A_Play 3.80 5


Based on Packer’s account in The New Yorker, Betrayed is a riveting and morally complex drama that explores in the Iraqis’ own words the ways in which we have already abandoned them. It will have its world premiere in January 2008, off-Broadway at the Culture Project.</div></div>]]> 49986 4.09 759 144 2008 217992 1555972772 9781555972776 0 <![CDATA[Central Square]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172792259m/217992.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172792259s/217992.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217992.Central_Square 2.00 3 Meanwhile, Paula Voorhees, a social worker-therapist, and Eric Barnes, a very married writer with a pregnant wife, meet and fall almost instantly in love. Eventually, the lives of these three characters converge in a welter of lies and guilt tinged with a prospect for healing. The magic in George Packer's novel lies in his ability to discuss the ethics of socialization and socializing without moralizing the characters into an easy closure. --Susan Swartwout

]]> 49986 4.09 759 144 1998 2145540 039458192X 9780394581927 0 <![CDATA[The Half Man]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2145540.The_Half_Man 0.0 0 49986 4.09 759 144 1991 7061751 1428115889 9781428115880 0 <![CDATA[The Assassins' Gate, America in Iraq]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7061751-the-assassins-gate-america-in-iraq 0.0 0 49986 4.09 759 144 6253 3.77 294 74 2006 6456231 0374175721 9780374175726 0 <![CDATA[Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256139217m/6456231.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256139217s/6456231.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6456231-interesting-times 0.0 0  </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">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. Whether exploring American policies in the wake of September 11, tracking a used T-shirt from New York to Uganda, or describing the complex response to Obama in Appalachia, these essays showcase Packer’s unmistakable perspective, which is at once wide-angled and humane.</P></DIV>]]> 49986 4.09 759 144 2009 7046471 0641952325 9780641952326 0 <![CDATA[The Assassins' Gate]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7046471-the-assassins-gate 0.0 0 49986 4.09 759 144 2005 7046470 0641840632 9780641840630 0 <![CDATA[The Assassins' Gate]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7046470-the-assassins-gate 0.0 0 49986 4.09 759 144 2005