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A longtime staff writer for The New Yorker now writing for The Atlantic, George Packer has reported extensively on global unrest, from Bosnia, to the Iraq War, to the civil war in Syria. In his new book \u201cOur Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century,\u201d Packer writes about one of America\u2019s greatest diplomats. He compares Holbrooke\u2019s larger than life character, utterly self-absorbed, in turns revered and reviled, to an era of enormous global influence. On May 23, 2019, George Packer came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater talked with Clara Jeffrey about Richard Holbrooke, the slow deterioration of American influence, and the country\u2019s retreat into nationalism.