Blood of the Liberals - by George Packer (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The inheritor of two sometimes conflicting strains of the great American liberal tradition, Packer explores the ideals that shaped the lives of his forebears and describes his own struggle to carry on their tradition in our time, when large numbers of Americans have lost faith in politics.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>An acclaimed journalist and novelist explores the legacy and future of American liberalism through the history of his family's politically active history</b> <p/>George Packer's maternal grandfather, George Huddleston, was a populist congressman from Alabama in the early part of the century--an agrarian liberal in the Jacksonian mold who opposed the New Deal. Packer's father was a Kennedy-era liberal, a law professor and dean at Stanford whose convictions were sorely--and ultimately fatally--tested in the campus upheavals of the 1960s. The inheritor of two sometimes conflicting strains of the great American liberal tradition, Packer discusses the testing of ideals in the lives of his father and grandfather and his own struggle to understand the place of the progressive tradition in our currently polarized political climate. Searching, engrossing, and persuasive, <i>Blood of the Liberals</i> is an original, intimate examination of the meaning of politics in American lives.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Splendid...[Packer] skillfully weaves the travails of the reformist left through the equally tempetuous story of his own activist family. The result is a politically engaged memoir that sheds more understanding on the problems and promise of liberalism than a shelf full of hand-wringing or wistful post-mortems."--Michael Kazin, <i> Chicago Tribune</i> <p/>"Remarkable...Belongs on the shelf next to <i>Angela's Ashes</i>, <i>The Liars' Club</i>, and <i>A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius</i>."--Jack Hitt, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"<i>Blood of The Liberals </i>is coherent, compelling and desperately urgent."--Wilson Carey McWilliams, <i> San Francisco Chronicle</i> <p/>"I've never read a book quite like George Packer's <i>Blood of the Liberals</i>. More than a learned history and revealing memoir, it's also an unsentimental but deeply felt love letter to the father he barely knew and the grandfather he never met. Packer shows American liberals where we've been and where we must go by sharing his story--a story that is heartbreaking, hopeful, and beautifully drawn."--George Stephanopoulos</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>GEORGE PACKER</b> is a staff writer at <i>The Atlantic </i>and the author of <i>The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq</i>, which received several prizes and was named one of the ten best books of 2005 by <i>The New York Times Book Review</i>. He is also the author of two novels, <i> The Half Man </i>and <i>Central Square</i>, and two other works of nonfiction, including <i>The Village of Waiting</i>. His play, <i>Betrayed</i>, ran for five months in 2008 and won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play. His most recent book is <i>Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century</i>. He lives in Brooklyn.
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