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The point of it all : a lifetime of great loves and endeavors
Title:
The point of it all : a lifetime of great loves and endeavors
Summary:
Spanning the personal, the political and the philosophical, Krauthammer's essays display his penetrating wit and insight as well as his ability to identify the hidden moral truths that animate our politics and culture. Completed before his death in June 2018, this collection features the columns, speeches and unpublished writings that showcase the best of his original thought as well as his beliefs about what mattered most to him: friendship, family and the principles he lived by. -- Adapted from jacket
General Note:
Includes index.
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Introduction / by Daniel Krauthammer -- What a piece of work of man. Life well lived ; Customs and culture ; Contests ; Cosmos ; The doctor is in ; Matters of life and death -- Man and society. Look outward ; Against the grain ; The too-examined life ; Out of many, one ; Church and state -- Politics, foreign and domestic. The two last tribes of Israel ; Keeping the world at bay ; Democracy and its discontents ; On liberty -- Competing visions: America's role and the course of world history. Reluctant colossus ; The end of "The end of history" -- Speaking in the first person. A life without regrets -- Eulogy / by Daniel Krauthammer.
Physical Description:
xxxiii, 360 pages ; 25 cm
Genre:
Publisher:
Crown Forum,
Publication Date:
2018
ISBN:
9781984825483
Publication Information:
New York : Crown Forum, [2018]
Call Number:
814 KRAUTHA
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