George Packer
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- Born
- 1960-08-13
- Works
- 29
Top works
- The Unwinding
- Our Man
- All art is propaganda
- Interesting Times
- Facing Unpleasant Facts
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- Listeners
- 24
- Total plays
- 440
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5 total works indexed
- A short history of<i>SHELX</i>
· 2007 · cited 79,666x
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 47,800x
- Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>
· 2015 · cited 40,112x
- <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination
· 2015 · cited 26,991x
- A new and rapid colorimetric determination of acetylcholinesterase activity
· 1961 · cited 23,020x
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Quotes
- “Barack Obama was a writer before he became a politician, and he saw his Presidency as a struggle over narrative.”
- “Barack Obama was always better at explaining the meaning of democracy than at fighting its opponents.”
- “After Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, the burden of proof is on anyone who would make the case for military action as a force for good.”
- “It’s hard to build a narrative around actions not taken, disasters possibly averted, hard realities accommodated. The story of what didn’t happen isn’t an easy one to tell.”
- “More than any modern President, Barack Obama had a keen sense of the limits of American power—and of his own.”
- “At the heart of Obama’s narrative was a belief that progress, in the larger scheme of things, was inevitable, and this belief underscored his position on every issue from marriage equality to climate change. His idea of progress was neither the rigid millennial faith of Woodrow Wilson nor Bush’s shallow God-blessed optimism. It was human-scale and incremental.”
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