George Packer is one of the most insightful thinkers on American Culture and Politics. His new book is Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal. You can buy it here. A long time writer at The New Yorker and now for The Atlantic, his previous books include a biography of Richard Holbrooke and The Assassins'' Gate: America in Iraq.

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