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George Packer
George Packer helps organisations understand American political division and civic renewal through storytelling and structural analysis. George works with leadership teams on national identity, democratic institutions, and social cohesion, delivering National Book Award-winning insights from The Atlantic and The New Yorker.
George Packer is a National Book Award-winning author who examines the forces pulling America apart and maps practical routes toward national renewal.
Packer won the National Book Award for The Unwinding, his account of institutional decline across American life. He is also the author of Last Best Hope and the novel The Emergency, and a longtime staff writer for The Atlantic and The New Yorker.
Packer's work connects the lived experiences of ordinary Americans to the structural failures that have eroded trust in democracy. Rather than offering partisan prescriptions, he returns to founding ideals of equality, independence, and self-government as a unifying framework. His argument is specific: shared inheritance, religion, or ethnicity cannot hold a diverse nation together, but a renewed commitment to equal opportunity and civic participation can.
Audiences leave Packer's sessions with a clearer understanding of how economic and political unwinding affects communities at every level, a framework for talking about national identity without retreating into tribalism, and concrete examples of how civic ideals have historically delivered material progress when put into practice.
Book George Packer to give your audience both an honest diagnosis of American fracture and a credible case for repair.
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George Packer draws on long-form narrative journalism — built from the lived experiences of ordinary Americans — to trace structural failures in democratic institutions, then anchors his argument in founding civic ideals to present a framework for national renewal.
George Packer speaks on American political fracture, institutional decline, civic renewal, and the structural forces eroding trust in democracy. He won the National Book Award for The Unwinding, his account of institutional decline across American life, and is a longtime staff writer for The Atlantic and The New Yorker.
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