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Things that matter : three decades of passions, pastimes, and politics  Cover Image Book Book

Things that matter : three decades of passions, pastimes, and politics / Charles Krauthammer.

Summary:

America's preeminent columnist presents his penetrating and surprising reflections on everything from embryo research to entitlement reform, from Halley's Comet to border collies, from Christopher Columbus to Martin Luther King, from drone warfare to American decline. Features a special, highly autobiographical introduction.
Selected essays previously published in various periodicals and journals.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0385349173 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9780385349178 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 0385349181 (ebook)
  • ISBN: 9780385349185 (ebook)
  • Physical Description: x, 387 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First Edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Crown Forum, [2013]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part one: Personal. The good and the great ; Manners ; Pride and prejudices ; Follies ; Passions and pastimes ; Heaven and Earth -- Part two: Political. Citizen and state ; Conundrums ; Body and soul ; Man and God ; Memory and monuments -- Part three: Historical. The Jewish question, again ; The golden age ; The age of holy terror ; The age to come -- Part four: Global. Three essays on America and the world.
Subject: Krauthammer, Charles, 1950-
Popular culture > United States > History.
United States > Politics and government.
United States > Civilization.

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