America in Crisis and Renewal. W/George Packer
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
George Packer is one of the most insightful thinkers on American Culture and Politics. His new book is Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal. You can buy it here. A long time writer at The New Yorker and now for The Atlantic, his previous books include a biography of Richard Holbrooke and The Assassins'' Gate: America in Iraq.
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| 0:00.0 | Searching for a romantic summer getaway. Escape with Rich Girl Summer, the new Audible original |
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| 0:10.2 | Lily Chew title. This time, Philippa is joined by her real-life husband, Stephen Pasquale, |
| 0:15.5 | set in Toronto's wealthy cottage country, aka the Hamptons of Canada, rich girl Summer follows the story of Valerie, |
| 0:22.1 | a down-on-her-luck event planner posing as a socialite's long-lost daughter, while piecing |
| 0:26.5 | together the secrets surrounding a mysterious family and falling deeper and deeper in love with the |
| 0:31.7 | impossibly hard to read and infuriatingly handsome family assistant, Nico. Caught between pretending to belong |
| 0:38.2 | and unexpectedly finding where she truly fits in, |
| 0:41.3 | Valerie learns her summer is about to get far more complicated |
| 0:44.0 | than she ever planned. |
| 0:45.8 | She's in over her head and head over heels. |
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| 1:04.2 | Hello, friends and neighbors, and welcome back to the Bill Press Pod. |
| 1:09.1 | In the first line of The Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens famously wrote, |
| 1:12.8 | It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. |
| 1:20.0 | But were he alive today, Dickens might simply cut it short and say, it's the worst of times. |
| 1:26.9 | Indeed, after four years of Donald Trump, a year and a half of COVID, 25% of Americans not accepting the results of the last election, |
| 1:29.6 | and the country perhaps more divided than ever before, it's hard to imagine a tougher time for |
| 1:35.6 | America, leading some, starting with President Biden himself, to openly raise the question |
| 1:42.1 | whether or not our democracy can even survive. |
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