WorldView Magazine: Georce Packer

In ‘Last Best Hope,’ George Packer Seeks to Find a Way for Americans to Talk with Each Other Again

Last Best Hope America in Crisis and Renewal By George Packer Farrar, Straus and Giroux   Reviewed by Marnie Mueller   George Packer’s Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal is a self-described political pamphlet in long-form essay, not unlike Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, written in a period of change, about that very change. Packer’s goal is to find a way Americans can talk with each other again. A modest aim — but in this post-Trump era, perhaps an insurmountable task. Packer addresses what James Baldwin described as our tangled American problem: “In the same way that to become a social human being...