George Packer, bestselling author and staff writer for The New Yorker, will offer the Charlotte and Dr. Jules Joskow Memorial Lecture, entitled “The Unwinding,” at Temple Emanuel of Great Neck, Sunday, Nov. 10.
Packer creates an intimate, documentary-style portrait of America today. He maintains that there’s been an undoing of the deal that used to exist between Americans: If you work hard and do your part, there will be a place for you and your children.
In the last generation, this has begun to come apart. More and more people now feel they have to go their own way. For some people this has been a good thing, for others it’s been destabilizing and even devastating.
George Packer is the author of New York Times bestseller, “The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America.” He has published four other works of non-fiction: “The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq,” “Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade,” “Blood of the Liberals,” and “The Village of Waiting.”
He is also the author of two novels, “The Half Man” and “Central Square,” and a play, “Betrayed.” He is the editor of “The Fight Is for Democracy: Winning the War of Ideas in America and the World,” and of a two-volume edition of George Orwell’s essays. Packer’s New Yorker articles have won three Overseas Press Club awards and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.
The 3 p.m. lecture is part of The Emanuel Series, Cultural Arts for the 21st Century. Admission is $15 per person or $25 per couple. Call (516) 482-5701 to purchase tickets.
