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George Packer

Geburtstag: 13. August 1960

George Packer ist ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Journalist. Er ist vor allem für seine journalistischen Arbeiten für The New Yorker bekannt, deren Schwerpunkt die Außenpolitik der Vereinigten Staaten ist. Sein Sachbuch The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America wurde 2013 mit dem National Book Award in der Kategorie Sachbuch ausgezeichnet und für den National Book Critics Circle Award nominiert.

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„Sein Egoismus war eine rationale Reaktion auf die Wirklichkeit, in der er lebte.“

— George Packer
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

„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.“

— George Packer

„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.“

— George Packer

„Progressives find it hard to imagine that there are others who in good faith don’t want the better world they’re offering and will fiercely resist it.“

— George Packer
'[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/18/witnessing-the-obama-presidency-from-start-to-finish Witnessing the Obama Presidency, from Start to Finish]' by George Packer, The New Yorker, June 18, 2018.

„Barack Obama was always better at explaining the meaning of democracy than at fighting its opponents.“

— George Packer

„It’s hard to build a narrative around actions not taken, disasters possibly averted, hard realities accommodated. The story of what didn’t happen isn’t an easy one to tell.“

— George Packer

„More than any modern President, Barack Obama had a keen sense of the limits of American power—and of his own.“

— George Packer

„At the heart of Obama’s narrative was a belief that progress, in the larger scheme of things, was inevitable, and this belief underscored his position on every issue from marriage equality to climate change. His idea of progress was neither the rigid millennial faith of Woodrow Wilson nor Bush’s shallow God-blessed optimism. It was human-scale and incremental.“

— George Packer

„Barack Obama was a writer before he became a politician, and he saw his Presidency as a struggle over narrative.“

— George Packer

„After Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, the burden of proof is on anyone who would make the case for military action as a force for good.“

— George Packer

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Zitate von George Packer

George Packer

Zitate George Packer

„Sein Egoismus war eine rationale Reaktion auf die Wirklichkeit, in der er lebte.“

„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.“

„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.“

„Progressives find it hard to imagine that there are others who in good faith don’t want the better world they’re offering and will fiercely resist it.“

„Barack Obama was always better at explaining the meaning of democracy than at fighting its opponents.“

„It’s hard to build a narrative around actions not taken, disasters possibly averted, hard realities accommodated. The story of what didn’t happen isn’t an easy one to tell.“

„More than any modern President, Barack Obama had a keen sense of the limits of American power—and of his own.“

„Barack Obama was a writer before he became a politician, and he saw his Presidency as a struggle over narrative.“

„After Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, the burden of proof is on anyone who would make the case for military action as a force for good.“

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