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Packer, George

 
9780374175726: Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade
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ISBN 10: 0374175721 ISBN 13: 9780374175726
Editorial: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009

Sinopsis

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 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 keythemes 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.

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Acerca del autor

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

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Editorial
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Año de publicación
2009
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0374175721
ISBN 13 
9780374175726
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
496
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9780374532529: Interesting Times: Writing from a Turbulent Decade

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0374532524 ISBN 13:  9780374532529
Editorial: FSG Adult, 2010
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