First: a bit about George Packer....
Bio of George Packer --- From The New Yorker Magazine:
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George Packer was named a staff writer for The New Yorker in May, 2003. He has written on the atrocities committed in Sierra Leone, the Al-Jazeera satellite news channel, and civil unrest in the Ivory Coast. In 2003, Packer was awarded two Overseas Press Club awards, one for his influential twenty-thousand-word examination of the difficulties faced during the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq (November, 2003), and the second, in the category of human rights, for his coverage of the civil war in Sierra Leone (January, 2003).
Packer was a 2001-2002 Guggenheim Fellow and has contributed many articles, essays, and reviews on foreign affairs, American politics, and literature to the New York Times Magazine, Dissent, Mother Jones, Harper’s, and other publications. He has taught writing at Harvard, Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, and Columbia.
Packer is the author of “The Village of Waiting” (Vintage, 1988; reissued by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001), about his experience in Africa. His book “Blood of the Liberals” (Farrar, Straus Giroux, 2000), a three-generational nonfiction history of his family and American liberalism in the twentieth century, won the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He has also written two novels, “The Half Man” (Random House, 1991) and “Central Square” (Graywolf, 1998).
Packer was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area. After graduating from Yale, in 1982, he served in the Peace Corps in Togo, West Africa. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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George Packer
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George PackerGeorge Packer (born August 13, 1960) is an American journalist and novelist. His parents, Nancy Packer and Herbert Packer, were both academics at Stanford University; his maternal grandfather was George Huddleston, a congressman from Alabama. Packer graduated from Calhoun College, Yale University in 1982, and served in the Peace Corps in Togo. His essays and articles have appeared in The Nation, Harper's, The New York Times, among other publications. Packer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a columnist for Mother Jones.
Packer's most recent book, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, analyzes the events that led to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and reports on subsequent developments in that country, largely based on interviews with ordinary Iraqis. Packer is highly critical of the war, but he in turn has been criticized by anti-war activists for his support during the run-up to the invasion.
[edit] Books
The Village of Waiting (1988). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1st Farrar edition, 2001). Pb. ISBN 0-374-52780-6
The Half Man (1991). Random House ISBN 0-394-58192-X
Central Square (1998). Graywolf Press ISBN 1-55597-277-2
Blood of the Liberals (2000). Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-25142-8
The Fight is for Democracy: Winning the War of Ideas in America and the World (2003, as editor). Harper Perennial. Pb. ISBN 0-06-053249-1
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq (2005) Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005 ISBN 0-374-29963-3
[edit] External links
"The Megacity - Decoding the Chaos of Lagos", The New Yorker, Nov 13, 2006.
"Dreaming of Democracy", New York Times Magazine, March 2, 2003. (mirrored)
"War after the War" — what Washington doesn't see in Iraq. The New Yorker, November 24, 2003.
"The Revolution Will Not Be Blogged", Mother Jones, May/June 2004. (Issue on the limitations of the political blogosphere)
"Testing the Ground", Letter from Basra, The New Yorker, February 28, 2005. (On the struggle between Islamists and secularists in Iraq's Shiite South)
"The Home Front", The New Yorker, July 4, 2005. (On the effects of a twenty-two-year-old soldier's death on his family)
"Sons and Soldiers", The New Yorker, July 4, 2005. (George Packer discusses his article, "The Home Front", with Ben Greenman)
"Name Calling", The New Yorker August 8, 2005. (On the Bush administration's efforts to replace the term G.W.O.T. (Global War on Terrorism) with "global struggle against violent extremism")
"Saddam on Trial". The New Yorker, October 31, 2005.
George Packer on Assassins' Gate, Washington Post Book World, October 11, 2005.
"Knowing the Enemy", The New Yorker, December 18, 2006.
Posts by George Packer at TPMCafe.
Review of The Assassins' Gate, The Washington Monthly.
Profile in the Columbia Journalism Review.
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