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Last Best Hope by George Packer is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Last Best Hope about?
Acclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America's descent into a failed state, and envisions a path toward overcoming our injustices, paralyses, and dividesHow, in a few decades, did the United States transform from a broadly prosperous middle-class country, with relatively healthy institutions and competent leaders, to a nation defined by discredited elites, hollowed-out institutions, and blatant inequalities—feared and pitied by our friends, mocked and sabotaged by our adversaries, first in the world in Covid cases and deaths, and led in recent years by an incompetent authoritarian bigot? Last Best Hope is a bracing account of our current crisis and of how a new era of civic revitalization may bring it to an end.Combining reportage with historical narrative, autobiography, and political analysis, Packer depicts and assesses the four inadequate narratives that dominate American public life: Libertarian America, which...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- George Packer
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fantasy, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (67 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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