George Packer
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Image:George Packer.jpg George Packer (born 1960) is an American journalist and novelist. 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.
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Books
- The Village of Waiting (1988). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1st Farrar edition, 2001). Pb. ISBN 0374527806
- The Half Man (1991). Random House ISBN 039458192X
- Central Square (1998). Graywolf Press ISBN 1555972772
- Blood of the Liberals (2000). Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0374251428
- The Fight is for Democracy: Winning the War of Ideas in America and the World (2003, as editor). Harper Perennial. Pb. ISBN 0060532491
- The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq (2005) Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005 ISBN 0374299633
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External links
- "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. Ge(orge 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.
- Posts by George Packer at TPMCafe
- Review of The Assassins' Gate, The Washington Monthly.