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SUMMARY:An Evening with George Packer '82
DESCRIPTION:IS THERE STILL HOPE?\nAMERICA IN CRISIS AND RENEWAL\nHow\, in a
  few decades\, did the United States transform from a broadly prosperous m
 iddle-class country\, with relatively healthy institutions and competent l
 eaders\, to a nation defined by discredited elites\, hollowed-out institut
 ions\, and blatant inequalities? Acclaimed author George Packer joins us
  to discuss his latest book Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewa
 l.\n\nPacker offers us a riveting clear-sighted analysis of how America go
 t here and presents four incompatible narratives that currently domina
 te American public life: the Free America of libertarian Reagan\, the Smar
 t America of Silicon Valley and the professional elite\, the Real America
  of white Christian nationalism\, and the Just America of #MeToo and BLM.
  None of these narratives\, according to Packer\, can sustain American de
 mocracy. Rather than despair\, Packer draws on previous eras of crisis an
 d presents a hopeful vision for how a new era of civic revitalization ma
 y bring it to an end.\n\nBy creating a fifth version of the US\, the Equa
 l America – which involves extending the New Deal to Americans in more a
 reas of their lives\, from affordable and universal health care to a livin
 g minimum wage and beyond – Americans can reinvigorate their self-govern
 ment. “No one is going to save us. We are our last best hope.”\n\nGeor
 ge Packer\, Yale class of '82\, is the author of The Unwinding\; Thirty Y
 ears of American Decline\, which won the National Book Award. His other no
 n-fiction books include The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq\; Blood o
 f the Liberals\, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award\; and Our Man
 : Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century\, which won the Hi
 tchens Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize for biography and was a final
 ist for the Pulitzer Prize. From 2003 to 2018 he was a staff writer for 
 The New Yorker. He is currently a staff writer for The Atlantic.\n\nThis
  event will be both in-person and online. Watch our website for more info
 rmation on tickets and registration.\n\nYouTube livestream link: https://
 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gerkhb8tAwE\n\nNote: If you are in BERLIN\, George
  will be at the American Academy on April 28th. Those in MUNICH interested
  in a Yale Club lunch with George please contact president@yaleclub.de. \
 n\nPhoto © Farrar\, Straus and Giroux
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CATEGORIES:Munich,Munich Dialogues on Democracy
LOCATION:Theater at Amerikahaus Munich\, Karolinenplatz 3\, Munich\, German
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