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The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture, and Other News
George F. Will
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995
the leveling wind
His conservative view of current affairs is the most inspiring articles I have ever read for the modern day-to-day history.
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The WOVEN FIGURE : CONSERVATISM AND AMERICA'S FABRIC
George F. Will
Free Press, 1998
America's Greatest Essayist
Yes, as one person complained, this book is "just" a compilation of Will's previously published columns & essays (with a few speeches thrown in as a bonus). That's a bit like saying that the King James Bible is "just" a compilation of the speeches of a few Hebrew ...
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Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball
George F. Will
Harper Paperbacks, 1991
Excellent
This is a fascinating journey into the national pastime. George Will writes economically and wisely not only about what the game is, but also what it once was. The evolution of the sport - although that is certainly not the focus of the book - is illuminating for ...
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The Conscience of a Conservative (The James Madison Library in American Politics)
Barry M. Goldwater
Princeton University Press, 2007
Clear and to the point
This book is clear and to the point. Mr. Goldwater doesn't waste any time laying it all out on the line about what true conservatism is. My wife and I are adding it to our home school library of required additional reading.
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Statecraft as Soulcraft
George F. Will
Touchstone, 1984
Moral Clarity for the Modern Conservative.
You listened to the President emphasize at the RNC that Government should be a tool, a facilitator to help people better themselves. He didn't mention eliminating goverment. George Will wrote this book about 10 years ago, yet his message can be so pertinent to the ...
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One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation
George Will
Crown Forum, 2008
America Through Conservative Eyes
"One Man's America" focuses not on the large events of the first years of the 21st century, but rather how a conservative sensibility reacts to smaller matters. While doing so he also provides an entertaining and instructive unfolding of the American story.
Will's ...
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Enlightened Democracy: The Case for the Electoral College
Tara Ross
Colonial Press, L.P., 2005
Recommended strongly for every citizen - learn about the important benefits of the Electoral College
We live in a large country; both geographically and in population. There is always the temptation to either extrapolate from where we live that we are the same as everyone else and also a temptation to think that everyone out there is like us. Neither is sound.
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Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy
George F. Will
Free Press, 1993
A political thinker to rival the founders, must read!
RESTORATION In this book George Will has proven himself to be one of the great political thinkers of our times. His wisdom, although presented in 1992 in Restoration over a decade ago, is still vitally relevant to today and tomarrow and to the future of the American ...
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Bunts
George F. Will
Free Press, 1999
As good as any baseball book I have read, and I have read a lot of them
While George Will's political opinions are often subject to my snorts of derision, his feelings about baseball are beyond reproach. An unrepentant Cubs fan who once responded to the statement made on a national news show in 1984, "The Cubs winning the division title is ...
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The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions
George Will
Simon & Schuster, 1982
The themes of "Virtue" resonate today.
Nearly two decades after it was published, Will's second collection of columns bears reading today. The themes Will addresses in the columns -- the role of government, the coarsening of culture, etc. -- continue to resonate. This is an excellent resource for anyone ...
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With a Happy Eye, but... : America and the World, 1997--2002
George F. Will
Free Press, 2003
Will does it again
A must read for all Americans.
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The Salvation of Souls: Nine Previously Unpublished Sermons on the Call of Ministry and the Gospel by ...
Jonathan Edwards
Crossway Books, 2002
Classic Edwards
~The Salvation of Souls: Nine Previously Unpublished Sermons on the Call of Ministry and the Gospel~ is some great sermons from the Puritan divine Jonathan Edwards. Edwards was a colonial American Congregational preacher, theologian, missionary to Native Americans and ...
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The Marx Brothers: Monkey Business, Duck Soup, A Day at the Races (Classic Screenplay Series)
George Seaton, Bert Kalmar, ...
Faber & Faber, 1993
MArx Brothers Screenplays
Just watching a Marx Brothers movie leaves some people feeling like they've been delightfully spun around until they are dizzy with laughter. There is so much that one can miss because they are too busy spitting out their drinks in a moment of surprise that they ...
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The Morning After: American Successes and Excesses 1981-1986
George F. Will
Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1987
Compelling and provactive
A compilation of articles from reknowned conservative commentator George F. Will. Will presents us with plethera of political and social issues of the 80's agrued eloquently and presuasively. A must read for anyone who wants to understand the social and political ...
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The Journey of the One and Only Declaration of Independence
Judith St. George
Philomel, 2005
Wow! What a book!
I'm an armchair historian who's also interested in children's literature and so I'm always on the lookout for lively kids' books on the topics that interest me. Yesterday, just by chance, I came across this book at the library and after looking at just a couple of ...
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