Interesting Times by George Packer

Interesting Times by George Packer

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.

George Packer is a New Yorker staff writer and the author of several books, the most recent of which is The Assassins' Gate (FSG, 2005). He has won four Overseas Press Club awards for his reporting.

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ISBN 13	9780374175726
ISBN 10	0374175721
Title	Interesting Times
Author	George Packer
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Farrar Straus Giroux
Year published	2009-11-10
Number of pages	409
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