George Packer

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKAN NPR BEST BOOKSelected by New York Times' critic Dwight Garner as a Favourite BookA Washington Post Best Political BookA New Republic Best Book American society is at a crossroads, and The Unwinding by George Packer offers a profound and intricate tapestry of this national turbulence. Without divulging...

Just over a decade into the new millennium, America is beset by a sense of crisis. The seismic shifts that occurred in the space of a generation have created a country of winners and losers, leaving the social contract in pieces. In The Unwinding, George Packer narrates the story of America over the past three decades, bringing to the task...

The Assassins' Gate is the main entrance to the Green Zone, the fortified enclave of Saddam's former palaces that now houses the US military and political leadership in Baghdad. George Packer's remarkable book is an account of how America found itself in occupation of Iraq, using the country as a laboratory for the dissemination of democracy in the Middle East....

A gripping fable of imperial collapse that illuminates the crises of our times. George Packer's bestselling nonfiction work exploring American life has won many prizes, including the National Book Award. With The Emergency, he returns to fiction, bringing us a visionary novel that goes to the nerve centre of what it means to live in a time of fracture and...

A short, sharp nonfiction modern classic on the political and societal state of America – how America got into this mess, and how it might get out of it – by one of the world's greatest nonfiction writers. Acclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America's descent into a failed state and envisions a path toward overcoming injustices, paralyses,...