George Packer (born August 13, 1960) is an American journalist and novelist. His parents, Nancy Packer and Herbert Packer, were both academics at Stanford University; his maternal grandfather was George Huddleston, a congressman from Alabama. Packer graduated from Calhoun College, Yale University in 1982, and served in the Peace Corps in Togo. His essays and articles have appeared in "The Nation", "Harper's", "The New York Times", … Wikipedia
Packer begins and ends the book with the ultimate abstract dreamer, his friend Kanan Makiya, the Iraqi exile who is in a way the book's protagonist. www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_9_37/ai_n1563...
To see beyond their own little world and get a sense of what's really going on, journalists and readers need to get out of their pajamas. www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/05/04_200.html
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