He is the author of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, a New York Times bestseller, which won the 2013 National Book Award for non-fiction. Photograph by Ahmed Muhammed Ali / Anadolu Agency / Getty. Many talk of him as an adored, slightly feared and somewhat distant father whose approval they always seek. They have little faith that the U.S. can achieve it, but even less that their own government and security forces can. The book proposes my own narrative, although it doesnt claim it as a narrative. His article looks at the public face of Amazon as publisher, as warehouse manager, as e-reader innovator and as the apparent victor in the Department of Justice lawsuit that charged Apple and publishers with collusion. BUT, most of us would like to be able to get health insurance.. What accounts for the level of incompetence in the American administration of postwar Iraq? It doesnt happen in neighborhoods. That dynamic's been entrenched for six, seven years now. An organizer for the NewsGuild who was present, Nastaran Mohit, told the writers she had avoided involving them in the original organizing drive because she knew how close many of them were to management, and she was worried theyd snitch. Then Ben Taub, an investigative reporter, asked Ms. Mohit why she had told their unionizing colleagues that the NewsGuild was also organizing the writers. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America focuses on the ways that America changed in the years between 1978 and 2012. I wonder how much its in the control of, say, one side of the political spectrum to bring the other side back. June 29, 2021. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. It took Amazon a little while to decide they werent going to cooperate with me, he said. Thats where its strongest, and at this point its dominant. Its stuck in its original hierarchy, and that hierarchy has to be overthrown in order for justice to come. Fitzgerald intuited that, with the old restraining deities of the 19th century dead and his generations faith in man shaken by World War I, celebrities were the new household gods. He doesn't measure or model it. New Yorker staff writer George Packer is the winner of the 2013 National Book Award in Nonfiction for "The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America." He reported extensively on the Iraq war, both for the New Yorker and in his 2005 book . Anyone can read what you share. He summarized what he saw as the consensus view in another WhatsApp message to colleagues. This post has been corrected. The easiest-to-understand element of the dispute involves the wages of the production employees, the group that includes everyone from fact checkers to social media editors. The companys lawyers werent happy either, with the name at least, compelling the project to be called the Small Publisher Negotiation Program., Packer also included a suggestion from super-agent Andrew Wylie that publishers stop selling their books to Amazon altogether. The fourth America is also a rebellion. Is it a failure of leadership? So its not as though there was a wild rejection of him. I ended up travelling through Europe and the Middle East for about a month, with two weeks in Baghdad. ranges across the country to chronicle the time when "the coil that held Americans together in its secure and sometimes stifling grip first gave way." "I am the empire at the end of the decadence." Thus said the French poet Mallarm. Few journalists are as respected by, and respectable to, liberals as The Atlantic's George Packer. Well, I agree. A United Parcel Service driver delivers packages from Amazon.com in Palo Alto. There was some craziness there, but over all this was inevitable, and it had to happen, and this is how history functions? He doesnt fit. A new mood of activism has swept through the home of the mascot Eustace Tilley.CreditNick Little. I still am looking for some way to describe us as a people, as Americans. They're scared of doing something that might look a little unsafe. Because of the difficulties of working in Iraq and the concerns Iraqis have about their safety, this story presented logistical challenges. He is the author of several books, including The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, and The Assassins Gate: America in Iraq, which was named one of the ten best books of 2005 by the New York Times and won the New York Public Librarys Helen Bernstein Book Award and an Overseas Press Club book award. The utilitarian reason is a good one. Writers for The New Yorker have been known to refer to the editor, David Remnick, as Dad, so there was something a little illicit about their decision to gather without him back in 2018 at a Windsor Terrace apartment. To me, its a kind of reparations, and a necessary one. $26. My worry is that the philosophical and practical direction of this movement is making those achievements less likely. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories, George Packer, a staff writer from 2003 to 2018, has covered the Iraq War for The New Yorker and has also written about the atrocities committed in Sierra Leone, civil unrest in the Ivory Coast, the megacity of Lagos, and the global counterinsurgency. I dont know where else it could happen. This seems like the only way that face-to-face interactions between Americans from wildly different backgrounds could happen. There has been no progress in terms of higher education opening up to Americans of lower classes. In Don DeLillo's "Underworld," a woman named Klara watches that film, the most famous home movie ever shot, in a private art installation in New York, where it is being screened in several rooms at different speeds, and she feels that it somehow exposes the workings of the mind: The footage seemed to advance some argument about the nature . I dont think you can persuade people. As I wrote in the piece, there is a sense among some of Iraqs neighbors that Iraqis, by allowing the Americans to overthrow Saddam and install a Shiite-majority government, have betrayed the Arab cause and represent a pro-Iranian Shiite front that threatens Sunni Arab countries. Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Award, George Packer is a venerated staff writer for The New Yorker-with four tours on . Robert Siegel discusses President Bush's speech outlining a strategy in the war in Iraq with Reuel Marc Gerecht, contributing editor for the Weekly Standard, Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, former Middle Eastern specialist for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1985 to 1994 and author of The Islamic Paradox: Shiite Clerics, Sunni Fundamentalists, and the Coming of Arab . They arent particularly concerned with the terms of the debate in Washingtontime lines, benchmarks, departure dates, troop numbers. The article, Packer said, kept eluding me. Packer was a columnist for Mother Jones and was a staff writer for The New Yorker from 2003 to 2018. For me, material conditions are where the Democratic Party has to put its focus. And they all come, in some ways, from that original passion for equality. IN "The Assassins' Gate," his chronicle of the Iraq war, George Packer tells the tale of Drew Erdmann, a young American . We are not just different but better, and in some ways we must crush you. Paperback, 434 pages. The New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm was asked during a libel case how compensation was set. The moment, of course, seems all the stranger, in that much of the conflict is playing out virtually, while everyone is working remotely. Aaron Rodgers is a year-to-year . (The NewsGuilds president, Susan DeCarava, said in response to questions about the exchange that it does not comment on confidential organizing conversations.), The meetings host, Adam Davidson, had already been among the writers talking to Mr. Remnick about setting up a health care plan for writers. Her influences were Brandeis, La Follette, Frances Perkins. How much power can employers exercise over their employees? Assigned reading, Professor John Nelson the unconnected george packer new yorker, 92, 35, october 31, 2016, pp. Almost half a century later, the ghost of the scandal that launched Woodwards career haunts the Trump White House. Far creepier, however, are the some of the more "complex" explanations for Bales's crime, notably one proffered by Iraq war supporter and neocon-enabler George Packer, in the New Yorker, who denounces "the smugness of the antiwar crowd" and instructs us to avoid "easy condemnations." After all, says Packer, To me, he embodies it. The 96-year-old magazine, known for its revered writers and sophisticated audience, is being consumed by a labor dispute. Feb 04 2015. The Hulu docuseries is a remarkable work, advancing the prestige true-crime genre's slow but steady reorientation toward centering victims. Gatsby, a mysterious bootlegger who makes a meteoric ascent from Midwestern obscurity to the palatial splendor of West Egg, exemplifies one part of the celebrity code: its inherently illicit. A war on this scale puts a whole country to the test, like a human body thats been slack for a while and then is suddenly exerted to the limits of its strength. According to Packer, in the place of the old stories, "four rival narratives have emerged, four accounts of America's moral identity" two on the right, and two on the left. Well be lucky if we do. A lot of people think of Just America as a response to Trump, too, which is why its interesting that youre defining it as just as much a reaction to Smart America. Soon the superstitious mariners and passengers . In recent years, a small group of scholars has focussed on war-termination theory. "Certain folks, frankly, don't support us in leadership roles." ++++ She does know that Chicago isn't even a majority-white city, right? We had to end a pandemic. It means were better. Journalist George Packer's article in the March 26 issue of The New Yorker magazine is called "Betrayed: The Iraqis Who Trusted America the Most.". Ad Choices. All rights reserved. We use first names with strangers. Comment. Maybe publishers need to think disruptively and not be victims., Maybe, he added, they should think a little more like predators., [For the Record, 1:15 p.m. PST Feb. 10: An earlier version of this post misquoted author George Packer as saying, Maybe publishers need to think destructively and not be victims. He used the word disruptively, not destructively.], Join Carolyn Kellogg on Twitter, Facebook and Google+. They are as intimate as they are grand, and they offer themselves for worship by ordinary people searching for a suitable object of devotion. All rights reserved. . And we can get into the reasons why, but I think its both increasingly illiberal philosophicallywhich scares me, since we have so much illiberalism in our society right nowand its politically perverse and fails to understand American voters in some basic ways that it needs to if it wants to make real change. We had a President who sowed division, and the result is that hundreds of thousands are dead. David Remnick at the American Society of Magazine Editors Ellie Awards ceremony in Brooklyn in 2019. he had erred and limited the action to one store, severance agreements that require confidentiality and nondisparagement, interferes with employees right to organize. It was a white Christian-nationalist narrative that said, Your free trade, your immigration, even your corporations and monopolies have not improved a lot of towns, and rural areas have sunk and are in deep trouble, and have some of the same serious problems that the inner cities have had for decades. And so, when Trump came along, in 2015, he intuited in his reptilian way that the old, sunny, optimistic Reagan message didnt cut it, and that something more dark and nativist and ugly would appealthat people didnt want to hear how good things were. I very much enjoyed this piece, because it seems to fit . His decency, his dignity, his ability to explain what democracy isIm not sure well ever see that again. In his article, Packer outlines what he calls "four rival narratives four accounts of America's moral identity.". Mr. Remnick reports directly to Cond Nasts chief executive. I dont much want to live in the republic of any of them, Packer writes. The book is kind of a quarrel with myself because, on the one hand, I am in a state of utter disgust and rage at the Republican Party, and its lies, its conspiracies, its racism, its cynicism. Jane Mayer came from Washington, and Lawrence Wright flew in from Austin, Texas. By George Packer. But she also said the NewsGuild believed the writers were misclassified as contractors, when they were really akin to full-time employees, and she laid out a path for them to join the union. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. People in Japan are calling Goto's murder their 9/11. Thats what George Packer asks in this weeks New Yorker, in a long article that looks at the online retailer as disruptor. "[4], Packer graduated from Yale College in 1982, where he resided at Calhoun College (now called Grace Hopper College). All of these are public stories that are familiar to those who follow Amazons moves in the publishing world; what Packer does it put them all in one place and make them comprehensible to a general audience. Generationally, hes closest to Clinton. @TangoMan I imagine that's what the Department of Water Resources dam management was worried about during the rains from 2/2 to 2/6 as they maintained the water level at 850 feet rather than flush a lot of valuable water down the river to get ready for the second half of the long set of storms from 2/7 to 2/10. And Democrats of Clintons generation moved way over toward the Free America side, in terms of their willingness to see the private sector as the main engine of both growth and fairness. The New Yorker staff writer George Packer answers readers' questions about his article " Betrayed," from the issue of April 2, 2007. Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Author, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America Doug Sovern, KCBS Radio Political Reporter - Moderator. Add that to the extreme difficulty of Iraqis emigrating to the West (Sweden is the exception), and they are basically unwelcome all over the world. George Packer (born ca. Packer is married to writer and editor Laura Secor. Not since the Berlin Wall fell has the world been cleaved so deeply by the kind of conflict that John F. Kennedy called a long, twilight struggle.. I found my subjects through word of mouth and previous experience. Well, I think Smart America is the one its closest toin a sense, its one generation overthrowing the previous one, children overthrowing parents. A recent essay in the Atlantic by George Packer, author of the 2013 book Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, makes the case that America is, in fact, a failed state. But I mean it in a larger sense. It doesnt happen in jobs. The editor, William Shawn, responded with pained, elegant letters, warning that collective bargaining would undermine the friendly, gentle, free, informal, democratic atmosphere that made The New Yorker special. George Packer (born ca. In July 2013 the New Yorker Festival released a video entitled Geoffrey Canada on Giving Voice to the Have-nots, of a panel that was moderated by George Packer. But Democrats are just as scared. And maybe we needed that. George Packer at the 2013 Texas Book Festival, Last edited on 16 February 2023, at 15:10, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, "Geoffrey Canada on Giving Voice to the Have-nots", "Our Man by George Packer review Richard Holbrooke and American power", "2013 National Book Awards Go to McBride, Packer, Szybist, Kadohata", "James McBride, George Packer win National Book Awards", "Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013", "2017 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grantee: George Packer", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Packer&oldid=1139717922, 2017 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to complete, This page was last edited on 16 February 2023, at 15:10. THE Roaring 20s was the decade when modern celebrity was invented in America. "I am a black woman -- let's not forget," she told the New Yorker. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. That gets back to the question of whether were trying to make good policy or win elections, right? The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century. The nineteen-sixties are on my mind a lot. How did Betrayed come together? 3. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California. Here I was re-creating what Iraqis told me had happened months or years ago, and I kept pressing them to be as specific as possible, which often ran up against their desire not to be identifiable. For example, do we get rid of standardized testing because there are disparate outcomes between groups? Working as the kind of writer that Brooks has sometimes been, but going far beyond that, he takes you into the lives of real Americans, at least one or two of whom will resemble any likely reader of the book, as they discover, sickeningly, that they're ensnared and blocked by forces beyond their . I have a bunch of ideas at the end of the book. Why did you decide to structure this book around four Americas? Id call that Real America. Were arrogant. Trump threw a great deal of accelerant onto smoldering discontent. Its not smart to lose touch with the basic feelings of large numbers of voters if you hope to get those votes. Then it took on a new, more global life in the years between the fall of the Soviet Union and the attacks of September 11th, as a book by your compatriot Josef Joffe, berpower, arguesa reaction against the sole superpower. Across the board, American institutions have failed. The conflict has seized the attention of the industry not just because of the employees glee at holding the brand hostage in public, but also because it highlights big questions facing contemporary media. I just couldnt quite face that thought. You have to be very high up to know about it, he said. Ive read and heard that many Vietnamese felt abandoned at the end of the Vietnam WarI highly recommend Frank Snepps book Decent Interval, about the last days of the Americans in Saigon. In general, our concepts of things like 100 Year Floods and 1000 Year Floods are . We found out last year we had something really big to do. And the reasons are complicated, but I think the basic one is that most Americans do not identify, fundamentally, as members of identity groups. An editor there, Daniel Menaker, wrote years later that he was embarrassed about the ineffectuality and yes, ordinariness of the Guild people wed come in contact with, but also that Mr. Shawns conduct had been revealing a classic case of liberals turning to the right when the capitalist chips were down just as I had been told, from my childhood on, liberals usually do.. Were nice. It has set off reflections on their status and revealed the rare bond and unusual deference many of them feel toward Mr. Remnick. Mr. Remnick has told some writers that he is simply eager for the conflict to be resolved. And its true. I recently spoke by phone with Packer, who is a staff writer at The Atlantic and was previously a staff writer at The New Yorker. The Democrats did all they could in the early Obama years to find some common ground, even with large majorities in Congress. It doesnt quite apply to a different group of Americans, and a different story, which I call Smart America. Obama was more candid. It's a full-scale scholarly biography of Richard Holbrooke, one of the most influential U.S. diplomats of the late 20th Century.[9]. George Packer, writer at the New Yorker and author of the new book "The Unwinding: An Inner History Of The New America." He also recently wrote the New York Times op-ed " Celebrating Inequality . Its Americans who believe that talent and effort should be rewarded but who also think were part of a society and that society has to make sure that everyone has roughly an equal chance. And if you bloc them that way, if you create monoliths, you will end up not speaking to their actual, as people say, lived experience. But I felt that in the last few years, politically and culturally, things have happened that showed that there are divisions within, as well as between, those two big blocks of Americans. And I know that thats a tricky and maybe dangerous thing for some Americans, but the first thing Id say is, if you suppress that in yourself, or if you refuse to acknowledge it in others, you will insure that the worst versions of it, like Trumpism, will have the field, because most people still feel that. We are having history wars at the momentin state legislatures, in school districtsand we are bringing up parts of our history that have been suppressed and that have to be brought to the surface. I think nationalism is destructive. What are celebrities, after all? One thing thats been said is that people on the left claim to speak for women, or people of color, and then, when it comes to the ballot box, Joe Biden overwhelmingly beats all the other Democrats with Black voters. Virtually all of The New Yorker writers I spoke to said they supported the unions core economic goals, and believed the junior staff members deserve pay increases. Some salaries at The New Yorker start at $42,000 a year and remain under $60,000 after 20 years on the job. We dont want so strong a union that mediocrity reigns and its impossible to get rid of poor performers. Even when the result is considered a success, as in Nikole Compare that to the several hundred Iraqisalmost all of them refugees from the Saddam erawho have been allowed to immigrate to the United States over the past few years. But no writers turned up at a protest outside Cond Nast headquarters on May Day, and none appeared to be present at a march outside the home of Cond Nasts global chief content officer, Anna Wintour, on June 8. But some also shun its blunt and adversarial language. Does Packer think thats viable? The other thing that I hold some hope in, in lowering the temperature, is simply improving the material conditions of peoples lives through government. 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