George Packer

Last Best Hope

America in Crisis and Renewal

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on the best of American history - what once made it great - without being trapped in the past, Last Best Hope dares America to step into a new and better era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 759504
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781787333420
• ISBN-10: 1787333426
• Artikelnr.: 61122679

Autorenporträt

George Packer is a staff writer for the Atlantic and a former staff writer for the New Yorker. He is the author of The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline, which was a New York Times bestseller and won a National Book Award. His other nonfiction books include The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, Blood of the Liberals, which won the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, which won the Los Angeles Times Biography Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards. He has also written two novels, The Half Man and Central Square. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Harper's, and other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Rezensionen

In the great tradition of Richard Hofstadter, but with a reporter's eye, George Packer has given us a thoughtful and ultimately hopeful book about crisis and opportunity. Jon Meacham, author of His Truth Is Marching On and The Soul of America