George packer the unwinding book

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David grann, author of the lost city of z george packer is a modernday george orwell. The book uses biographies of individual americans as a means of discussing important forces in american history from 1978 to 2012, including the subprime mortgage crisis, the decline of american manufacturing, and the influence of money on politics. In the unwinding, george packer, author of the assassins gate. As with george orwells, each of george packers sentences carries a pulse of moral force. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the unwinding. George packer is a staff writer for the new yorker and most recently the author of the unwinding. But unlike those crusading journalists a century ago who tackled a single issue like child. The unwinding is a sweeping and powerful book that everyone should read.