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• Winner of National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2013

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The 2013 National Book Award WinnerA New York Times BestsellerSelected by New York Times ' critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite Book of 2013A New York Times Notable Book of 2013A Washington Post Best Political Book of 2013An NPR Best Book of 2013A New Republic Best Book of 2013One of Publishers Weekly 's Best Nonfiction Books of 2013A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013 Praise for The Unwinding: [ The Unwinding ] hums--with sorrow, with outrage and with compassion . . . Packer's gifts are Steinbeckian in the best sense of that term . . . [Packer has] written something close to a nonfiction masterpiece. --Dwight Garner, The New York Times Gripping . . . deeply affecting . . . beautifully reported. --David Brooks, The New York Times Book Review Remarkable. --Joe Klein, Time Packer's dark rendering of the state of the nation feels pained but true. He offers no false hopes, no Hollywood endings, but he finds power in . . . the dignity and heart of a people. -- The Washington Post [ The Unwinding ] has many of the qualities of an epic novel . . . [a] professional work of journalism that also happens to be more intimate and textured--and certainly more ambitious--than most contemporary works of U.S. fiction dare to be . . . What distinguishes The Unwinding is the fullness of Packer's portraits, his willingness to show his subjects' human desires and foibles, and to give each of his subjects a fully throated voice. --Hector Tobar, The Los Angeles Times A monumental work that is both intimate and sweeping . . . Packer's writing dazzles . . . [his] reporting excels . . . The cumulative effect is extraordinary. --Ken Armstrong, The Seattle Times Brilliant. Harrowing. Gorgeously written . . . The Unwinding is a lyrical requiem for a lost time, for downsized dreams and surrendered hopes. It's beautiful . . . but also .e

Praise for The Unwinding: [ The Unwinding ] hums--with sorrow, with outrage and with compassion . . . Packer's gifts are Steinbeckian in the best sense of that term . . . [Packer has] written something close to a nonfiction masterpiece. --Dwight Garner, The New York Times Gripping . . . deeply affecting . . . beautifully reported. --David Brooks, The New York Times Book Review Remarkable. --Joe Klein, Time Packer's dark rendering of the state of the nation feels pained but true. He offers no false hopes, no Hollywood endings, but he finds power in . . . the dignity and heart of a people. -- The Washington Post [ The Unwinding ] has many of the qualities of an epic novel . . . [a] professional work of journalism that also happens to be more intimate and textured--and certainly more ambitious--than most contemporary works of U.S. fiction dare to be . . . What distinguishes The Unwinding is the fullness of Packer's portraits, his willingness to show his subjects' human desires and foibles, and to give each of his subjects a fully throated voice. --Hector Tobar, The Los Angeles Times A monumental work that is both intimate and sweeping . . . Packer's writing dazzles . . . [his] reporting excels . . . The cumulative effect is extraordinary. --Ken Armstrong, The Seattle Times Brilliant. Harrowing. Gorgeously written . . . The Unwinding is a lyrical requiem for a lost time, for downsized dreams and surrendered hopes. It's beautiful . . . but also . . . heartbreaking, a lush work of art that hurts all the more for being about the loss of hope and promise in America. -- The Daily Kos This is a work not just of fact, but of wit, irony, and astounding imagination. --Lorin Stein, The Paris Review A work of prodigious, highly original reporting . . . [Packer] demonstrates that the future of reporting out in world isn't in eclipse. Packer's arduous v

The 2013 National Book Award WinnerA New York Times BestsellerSelected by New York Times ' critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite Book of 2013A New York Times Notable Book of 2013A Washington Post Best Political Book of 2013An NPR Best Book of 2013A New Republic Best Book of 2013One of Publishers Weekly 's Best Nonfiction Books of 2013A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013 Praise for The Unwinding: [ The Unwinding ] hums--with sorrow, with outrage and with compassion . . . Packer's gifts are Steinbeckian in the best sense of that term . . . [Packer has] written something close to a nonfiction masterpiece. --Dwight Garner, The New York Times Gripping . . . deeply affecting . . . beautifully reported. --David Brooks, The New York Times Book Review Remarkable. --Joe Klein, Time Packer's dark rendering of the state of the nation feels pained but true. He offers no false hopes, no Hollywood endings, but he finds power in . . . the dignity and heart of a people. -- The Washington Post [ The Unwinding ] has many of the qualities of an epic novel . . . [a] professional work of journalism that also happens to be more intimate and textured--and certainly more ambitious--than most contemporary works of U.S. fiction dare to be . . . What distinguishes The Unwinding is the fullness of Packer's portraits, his willingness to show his subjects' human desires and foibles, and to give each of his subjects a fully throated voice. --Hector Tobar, The Los Angeles Times A monumental work that is both intimate and sweeping . . . Packer's writing dazzles . . . [his] reporting excels . . . The cumulative effect is extraordinary. --Ken Armstrong, The Seattle Times Brilliant. Harrowing. Gorgeously written . . . The Unwinding is a lyrical requiem for a lost time, for downsized dreams and surrendered hopes. It's beautiful . . . but also .V

Praise for The Unwinding: [ The Unwinding ] hums--with sorrow, with outrage and with compassion . . . Packer's gifts are Steinbeckian in the best sense of that term . . . [Packer has] written something close to a nonfiction masterpiece. --Dwight Garner, The New York Times Gripping . . . deeply affecting . . . beautifully reported. --David Brooks, The New York Times Book Review Remarkable. --Joe Klein, Time Packer's dark rendering of the state of the nation feels pained but true. He offers no false hopes, no Hollywood endings, but he finds power in . . . the dignity and heart of a people. -- The Washington Post [ The Unwinding ] has many of the qualities of an epic novel . . . [a] professional work of journalism that also happens to be more intimate and textured--and certainly more ambitious--than most contemporary works of U.S. fiction dare to be . . . What distinguishes The Unwinding is the fullness of Packer's portraits, his willingness to show his subjects' human desires and foibles, and to give each of his subjects a fully throated voice. --Hector Tobar, The Los Angeles Times A monumental work that is both intimate and sweeping . . . Packer's writing dazzles . . . [his] reporting excels . . . The cumulative effect is extraordinary. --Ken Armstrong, The Seattle Times Brilliant. Harrowing. Gorgeously written . . . The Unwinding is a lyrical requiem for a lost time, for downsized dreams and surrendered hopes. It's beautiful . . . but also . . . heartbreaking, a lush work of art that hurts all the more for being about the loss of hope and promise in America. -- The Daily Kos This is a work not just of fact, but of wit, irony, and astounding imagination. --Lorin Stein, The Paris Review A work of prodigious, highly original reporting . . . [Packer] demonstrates that the future of reporting out in world isn't in eclipse . . . Packer's ardu

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George Packer is an award-winning author and staff writer at The Atlantic. His books include The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (winner of the National Book Award), The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, and Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (winner of the Hitchens Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography). He is also the author of novels and a play, and the editor of a two-volume edition of the essays of George Orwell.

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