With a "far more coherent worldview than most reporters" (The New York Times Book Review), George Packer writes extensively on foreign affairs. A New Yorker staff writer, Packer was honored with two Overseas Press Club awards in 2003 for his coverage of the war in Iraq and his reporting on the civil war in Sierra Leone. His books include the New York Times bestseller The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq and Blood of the Liberals, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. In The Unwinding, Packer tells the story of America over the past three decades, weaving together intimate stories of Americans with biographical sketches of the era’s leading public figures.