George Packer

George Packer is the author of ten books, including The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (FSG, 2013), which won the National Book Award; Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (Knopf, 2019), which won the Hitchens Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and, most recently, Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal (FSG, 2021). He has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times, and the Atlantic, covering such topics as the Iraq War, the civil war in Sierra Leone, and unrest in the Ivory Coast.