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George Packer
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August 13, 1960
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The Khashoggi Body Double���and Mounting Evidence of a Premeditated Murder
Robin Wright on the mounting evidence in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, as surveillance footage shows a man Turkish officials have identified as Mustafa al-Madani, reportedly a Saudi intelligence agent, leave the consulate where the journalist disappeared.
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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
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2013
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50 editions
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The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq
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2005
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34 editions
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Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
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2019
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21 editions
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Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
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2021
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16 editions
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The Village of Waiting
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1988
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10 editions
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Blood of the Liberals
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2000
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7 editions
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The Emergency
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Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade
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2009
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Betrayed: A Play
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2008
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12 editions
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The Fight Is for Democracy: Winning the War of Ideas in America and the World – Essays by Leading Political Minds on Defeating Terrorism Through Liberal Reform
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2003
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“At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.”
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“Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked.
Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.”
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Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.”
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“[T]he enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wise or foolish regarding the war on terrorism; it is, rather, the way that the past decade has splintered them away from other Americans. This fracture comes with a steep price: in today's toxic atmosphere, liberals are no less cynical, shortsighted, and parochial than anyone else, and they understand their fellow-Americans just as badly as they themselves are understood. When liberals look at red-state voters, they see either a mob of pious know-nothings or the insensible victims of militarism and class warfare. Yet.... [such people] defy fixed categories, which means that they have to be figured out the hard way--on their own terms.”
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