George Packer
FameRank: 6

"George Packer" is an American journalist, novelist, and playwright. He is best known for his writings for The New Yorker about U.S. foreign policy and for his book The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq. More recently, he wrote The Unwinding/The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, covering the history of America from 1978 to 2012. That book won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in November 2013.

More George Packer on Wikipedia.

The Road to Hell.

The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq.

In this country, Iraq was almost always about winning the argument.

Good writing requires a character with a voice. Usually, the first sound bite is not the whole story.

The FEMA of the defense department.

Lies a distance even greater than the 8,000 miles from Washington to Baghdad.