Ebook {Epub PDF} Blood of the Liberals by George Packer

 · This is my second book by George Packer. The first was OUR MAN about Richard Holbrooke and written in the last few years. BLOOD OF THE LIBERALS was written in It is sort of an autobiography in that he is writing about the lives of /5. From the Inside Flap. Praise for Blood of the Liberals. "I've never read a book quite like George Packer's Blood of the Liberals. More than a learned history and revealing memoir, it's also an unsentimental but deeply felt love letter to the father he barely knew and the grandfather he never met/5(20). Blood of the liberals Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. EMBED. EMBED (for bltadwin.ru hosted blogs and bltadwin.ru item tags) Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! No_Favorite. share. flag. Flag this item for Packer, George, -- Family., Huddleston, User Interaction Count:

George Packer's maternal grandfather, George Huddleston, was a populist congressman from Alabama in the early part of the century--an agrarian liberal in the Jacksonian mold who opposed the New Deal. Packer's father was a Kennedy-era liberal, a law professor and dean at Stanford whose convictions were sorely--and ultimately fatally--tested in. BLOOD OF THE LIBERALS By George Packer. pp. New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux. $ iberals, who haven't had a good day since sometime in late , won't be having another one this morning. Their ''ism'' is now the subject of America's favorite funereal genre, the memoir. What poverty was to Frank McCourt, what alcoholism was to Mary Karr. Blood of the Liberals is a near-perfect blend of the personal and the political. Packer's grandfather was George Huddleston, a Congressman from Birmingham, Alabama who represents for Packer a lot of the contradictions in modern liberalism: desegregation versus states' rights, support for the common man against bigness (whether corporate, governmental, or otherwise), and at the same time a.

by George Packer ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 1, Liberals are born, not made. The exact definition of “liberal” may be a matter of disagreement, acknowledges journalist-novelist Packer (Central Square, ). Even within his own family, different strains of liberalism (from Jewish academic humanism to Protestant southern populism) made the dinner table a battlefield of debate, although both sides of that debate had a tendency “to side with the underdog, to feel that society imposes. From the Inside Flap. Praise for Blood of the Liberals. "I've never read a book quite like George Packer's Blood of the Liberals. More than a learned history and revealing memoir, it's also an unsentimental but deeply felt love letter to the father he barely knew and the grandfather he never met. About Blood of the Liberals An acclaimed journalist and novelist explores the legacy and future of American liberalism through the history of his family’s politically active history George Packer’s maternal grandfather, George Huddleston, was a populist congressman from Alabama in the early part of the century–an agrarian liberal in the Jacksonian mold who opposed the New Deal.