New PDF release: One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our

By George Will

ISBN-10: 0307449351

ISBN-13: 9780307449351

In his provocative and compelling new ebook, America's most generally learn and such a lot influential commentator casts his gimlet eye on our singular kingdom. relocating some distance past the stern confines of politics, George F. Will deals a desirable examine the folk, tales, and events--often unheralded--that make the yank drama so ceaselessly enjoyable and instructive.

With Will's signature erudition and wry wit regularly on exhibit, One Man's the US chronicles a miraculous, eclectic procession of figures who've formed our cultural landscape--from Playboy founder Hugh Hefner to nationwide evaluate founder William F. Buckley Jr., from Victorian poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to overcome poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, from cotton picker-- turned--country singer dollar Owens to actor-turned-president Ronald Reagan.

Will crisscrosses the rustic to light up what it's that makes the USA special. He visits the USS Arizona memorial in Pearl Harbor and ponders its enduring hyperlinks to the current. He travels to Milwaukee to rejoice the hundredth anniversary of an iconic model, Harley-Davidson. In l. a. he unearths the inspiring way forward for schooling, whereas in long island he confronts the dispiriting didacticism of the avant-garde. He ventures to the Civil struggle battlefields of Virginia to discover what we chance after we efface our personal background. And at the outskirts of Chicago he investigates one of many darkest chapters in American historical past, basically to find a shining instance of resilience and grace--the most sensible the rustic has to provide.

Will's extensive lens takes in even more as well--everything from the "most emblematic novel of the 1930s" (and no, it isn't concerning the Joads) to the cult of ESPN to Brooks Brothers and Ben & Jerry's. and naturally, One Man's the US wouldn't be whole with no the author's insights at the nationwide hobby, baseball--the icons and the cheats, the hapless and the greats.

Finally, in a private and reflective flip, Will writes movingly of his thirty-five-year-old son Jon, born with Down syndrome, and can pay loving and poignant tribute to his mom, who died on the age of ninety-eight after a protracted fight with dementia.

The essays in a single Man's the United States, even if critiquing American tradition, mirror Will's deep affection and regard for our state. in spite of everything, he notes, while the United States falls brief, it does so merely in comparison to "the uniquely excessive criteria it has set for itself." in any case, this brilliantly informative and interesting ebook reminds us of the iconic worth of "the uncomplicated virtues and decencies which may make groups flourish and that experience made the United States nice and exemplary."

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