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His book &#8220;<a rel="author-of" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130307212837/http://www.amazon.com/Assassins-Gate-America-Iraq/dp/0374530556/">The Assassins&#8217; Gate: America in Iraq</a>,&#8221; was named one of the ten best books of 2005 by the New York <i>Times</i> and won the New York Public Library&#8217;s Helen Bernstein Book Award and an Overseas Press Club&#8217;s book award. He has also written about the atrocities committed in Sierra Leone, civil unrest in the Ivory Coast, the megacity of Lagos, and global counterinsurgency. In 2003, Packer was awarded two Overseas Press Club awards, one for his twenty-thousand-word examination of the difficulties faced during the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq, which appeared in November, 2003, and the other for his coverage of the civil war in Sierra Leone, which appeared in January, 2003. <p>Packer is also the author of &#8220;<a rel="author-of" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130307212837/http://www.amazon.com/Village-Waiting-George-Packer/dp/0374527806/">The Village of Waiting</a>,&#8221; (1988), about his experience in Africa. His book &#8220;<a rel="author-of" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130307212837/http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Liberals-George-Packer/dp/0374527784/">Blood of the Liberals</a>,&#8221; (2000), a three-generational nonfiction history of his family and American liberalism in the twentieth century, won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He has also written two novels, &#8220;<a rel="author-of" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130307212837/http://www.amazon.com/Half-Man-George-Packer/dp/039458192X">The Half Man</a>&#8221; (1991) and &#8220;<a rel="author-of" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130307212837/http://www.amazon.com/Central-Square-George-Packer/dp/1555972772/">Central Square</a>,&#8221; (1998). His most recent book is &#8220;<a rel="author-of" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130307212837/http://www.amazon.com/Interesting-Times-Writings-Turbulent-Decade/dp/0374175721/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1259705457&amp;sr=8-1"><u>Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade.</u></a>&#8221;</p> <p>Packer has served in the Peace Corps, in Togo, West Africa, and was a 2001-02 Guggenheim Fellow. He has contributed numerous articles, essays, and reviews on foreign affairs, American politics, and literature to the New York <i>Times Magazine</i>, <i>Dissent</i>, <i>Mother Jones</i>, <i>Harper</i>&#8217;<i>s</i>, and other publications. He has taught writing at Harvard, Bennington, and Columbia.</p> <p>Packer lives in Brooklyn, New York.</p></dd> <dd class="credits"> </dd> </dl> </div> </div> <!-- end feature --> </div> </div> <!-- start search results --> <div class="results_numbers"> Results 1 - 10 of 411 </div> <div class="pagination"> <div class="align"> <form action="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/search" class="paginatorForm" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="rows" value="10"/> <span class="paginationFirst_off"><!-- First_off --></span> <span class="paginationPrevious_off"><!-- Previous_off --></span> <input type="hidden" name="contributorName" value="George Packer"> <input type="hidden" name="sort" value="publishdate desc, score desc"> <span class="pageField">Page<input type="text" name="page" class="forumPaginator" value="1"/> of 42</span> <span class="paginationNext"><a href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/search?page=2&amp;sort=publishdate+desc%2c+score+desc&amp;contributorName=George+Packer&amp;rows=10&amp;" title="Next" class="paginationNext">Next&nbsp;&gt;</a></span> <span class="paginationLast"><a href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/search?page=42&amp;sort=publishdate+desc%2c+score+desc&amp;contributorName=George+Packer&amp;rows=10&amp;" title="Last" class="paginationLast">&gt;&#124;</a></span> </form> </div> </div> <div class="results"> <div class="result"> <div class="captioned-photo"> <div class="w"> <a href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/03/technological-perfectionism-and-income-inequality.html" class="type-blogs"><img class="featureimg" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130307212837im_/http://blog.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/packer-inequality-233.jpg"/></a> </div> </div> <div class="info"> <div class="display-date"> March 6, 2013 </div> <h5 class="rubric"> Blog: Comment </h5> <h3 class="header"> <a href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/03/technological-perfectionism-and-income-inequality.html"> Upgrade or Die</a> </h3> <div class="text">When things don&#8217;t work in the realm of stuff, people turn to the realm of bits. If the physical world becomes intransigent, you can take refuge in the virtual world.</div> <div class="byline"> <div class="contributors"> <span class="contributor"><strong>by </strong><a rel="author" href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/george_packer/search?contributorName=George+Packer">George Packer</a></span> </div> </div> </div> <!-- info --> </div> <!-- result --> <div class="result odd"> <div class="captioned-photo"> <div class="w"> <a href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/02/apple-walmart-and-the-payroll-tax.html" class="type-blogs"><img class="featureimg" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130307212837im_/http://blog.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/156595583-465.jpg"/></a> </div> </div> <div class="info"> <div class="display-date"> February 20, 2013 </div> <h5 class="rubric"> Blog: Comment </h5> <h3 class="header"> <a href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/02/apple-walmart-and-the-payroll-tax.html"> The Walmart Test: Payroll Taxes and the Social Contract</a> </h3> <div class="text">If you were to write a social history of America through the story of business, what would be the most significant companies in the years since the Second World War? I&#8217;d divide the period...</div> <div class="byline"> <div class="contributors"> <span class="contributor"><strong>by </strong><a rel="author" href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/george_packer/search?contributorName=George+Packer">George Packer</a></span> </div> </div> </div> <!-- info --> </div> <!-- result --> <div class="result"> <div class="captioned-photo"> <div class="w"> <a href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/02/youth-age-music-news.html" class="type-blogs"><img class="featureimg" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130307212837im_/http://blog.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/packer-comment-news-233.jpg"/></a> </div> </div> <div class="info"> <div class="display-date"> February 8, 2013 </div> <h5 class="rubric"> Blog: Comment </h5> <h3 class="header"> <a href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/02/youth-age-music-news.html"> Loose Thoughts on Youth and Age</a> </h3> <div class="text">American culture belongs to the young, and, for that reason, it isn&#8217;t really mine any more. There are reasons why older is not necessarily wiser. You&#8217;re never more open to new experience than when you&#8217;re twenty. After that, the need to make money, the fear of having no work, the demands of children, the sense that the world is moving in strange new directions, the appearance of unfamiliar forms of expression that inevitably seem less wonderful than the ones that changed your life when you were twenty, cause the aperture to slowly narrow.</div> <div class="byline"> <div class="contributors"> <span class="contributor"><strong>by </strong><a rel="author" href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/george_packer/search?contributorName=George+Packer">George Packer</a></span> </div> </div> </div> <!-- info --> </div> <!-- result --> <div class="result odd"> <div class="captioned-photo"> <div class="w"> <a href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2013/02/11/130211taco_talk_packer" class="type-article"><img class="featureimg" alt="" src="/web/20130307212837im_/http://www.newyorker.com/images/2013/02/11/g120/130211_r23156illu_g120_cropth.jpg"/></a> </div> </div> <div class="info"> <div class="display-date"> Feb 11, 2013 </div> <h5 class="rubric"> Comment </h5> <h3 class="header"> <a href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2013/02/11/130211taco_talk_packer"> Long Engagements</a> </h3> <div class="text">Comment about Hillary Clinton, who is stepping down as Secretary of State, and her accomplishments at the State Department&#8230;</div> <div class="byline"> <div class="contributors"> <span class="contributor"><strong>by </strong><a rel="author" href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/george_packer/search?contributorName=George+Packer">George Packer</a></span> </div> </div> </div> <!-- info --> </div> <!-- result --> <div class="result"> <div class="captioned-photo"> <div class="w"> <a href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/01/can-obama-speak-to-history-in-his-second-inaugural.html" class="type-blogs"><img class="featureimg" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130307212837im_/http://blog.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/packer-comment-inaugurals.jpg"/></a> </div> </div> <div class="info"> <div class="display-date"> January 17, 2013 </div> <h5 class="rubric"> Blog: Comment </h5> <h3 class="header"> <a href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/01/can-obama-speak-to-history-in-his-second-inaugural.html"> Can Obama Speak to History?</a> </h3> <div class="text">Obama&#8217;s chosen profession, politics&#8212;even politics in the highest sense&#8212;has a stiffening, at times deadening effect on his language. Politics often turns his arguments into lists, his stories into pat illustrations, his ideas into sentiments; and when something like uplift is called for, he resorts to abstractions that have no rhetorical power.</div> <div class="byline"> <div class="contributors"> <span class="contributor"><strong>by </strong><a rel="author" href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/george_packer/search?contributorName=George+Packer">George Packer</a></span> </div> </div> </div> <!-- info --> </div> <!-- result --> <div class="result odd"> <div class="captioned-photo"> <div class="w"> <a href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2013/01/21/130121taco_talk_packer" class="type-article"><img class="featureimg" alt="" src="/web/20130307212837im_/http://www.newyorker.com/images/2013/01/21/g120/130121_r23064illu_g120_cropth.jpg"/></a> </div> </div> <div class="info"> <div class="display-date"> Jan 21, 2013 </div> <h5 class="rubric"> Comment </h5> <h3 class="header"> <a href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2013/01/21/130121taco_talk_packer"> Southern Discomfort</a> </h3> <div class="text">COMMENT about the increasing political isolation of the American South&#8230;</div> <div class="byline"> <div class="contributors"> <span class="contributor"><strong>by </strong><a rel="author" href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/george_packer/search?contributorName=George+Packer">George Packer</a></span> </div> </div> </div> <!-- info --> </div> <!-- result --> <div class="result"> <div class="captioned-photo"> <div class="w"> <a href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/01/can-filibuster-reform-save-the-senate.html" class="type-blogs"><img class="featureimg" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130307212837im_/http://blog.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/packer-senate-daily-comment.jpg"/></a> </div> </div> <div class="info"> <div class="display-date"> January 4, 2013 </div> <h5 class="rubric"> Blog: Comment </h5> <h3 class="header"> <a href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/01/can-filibuster-reform-save-the-senate.html"> Senatus Decadens</a> </h3> <div class="text">The Senate is in a prolonged, self-induced coma. It does not produce creative legislation. It does not inspire important debate. It is not responsive to key national problems. Its pretense of institutional dignity is so battered that junior senators openly mock it. I&#8217;m amazed that so many talented people&#8212;Elizabeth Warren among the most recent&#8212;still fight like hell to get into it.</div> <div class="byline"> <div class="contributors"> <span class="contributor"><strong>by </strong><a rel="author" href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/george_packer/search?contributorName=George+Packer">George Packer</a></span> </div> </div> </div> <!-- info --> </div> <!-- result --> <div class="result odd"> <div class="captioned-photo"> <div class="w"> <a href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/01/senatus-decadens-can-filibuster-reform-save-the-senate.html" class="type-blogs"><img class="featureimg" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130307212837im_/http://blog.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/packer-senate-daily-comment.jpg"/></a> </div> </div> <div class="info"> <div class="display-date"> January 4, 2013 </div> <h5 class="rubric"> Blog: Comment </h5> <h3 class="header"> <a href="/web/20130307212837/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/01/senatus-decadens-can-filibuster-reform-save-the-senate.html"> Senatus Decadens</a> </h3> <div class="text">The Senate is in a prolonged, self-induced coma. It does not produce creative legislation. It does not inspire important debate. It is not responsive to key national problems. Its pretense of institutional dignity is so battered that junior senators openly mock it. 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