A certain idea of America Selected writings
Book - 2024
"From Pulitzer-prize winning Wall Street Journal columnist and New York Times bestselling author Peggy Noonan, a masterclass in how to see and love America. For a quarter century, Peggy Noonan has been thinking aloud about America in her much-loved Wall Street Journal column. In this new collection of her essential recent work, Noonan demonstrates the erudition, wisdom and humor that have made her one of America's most admired writers. She calls balls and strikes on the political shenanigans of recent leaders and she honors the integrity of great Americans, ranging from Billy Graham to the heroes of 9/11. A thinker who never allows her tenderness to slip into sentimentality, she writes with clear-eyed urgency about the internal an...d external dangers facing our republic. She sometimes writes with indignation, but above all she writes with love- and an enduring faith that America can be its best self, that its ideals are worth protecting, and that beauty and heroism can be found in our neighbors, in our history, and in ourselves. This book is a celebration of what America has been, is, and can be"--
| Location | Call Number | Status | |
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| 2nd Floor New Shelf | 973/Noonan | (NEW SHELF) | Due Feb 16, 2025 |
- Subjects
- Genres
- Essays
- Published
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[New York] :
Portfolio/Penguin
[2024]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xv, 334 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9780593854778
- Foreword
- 1. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- Billy Graham, the Ecumenical Evangelist
- The Wisdom of Oscar Hammerstein
- The Mystery and Grace of Paul Simon
- Hats Off to Tom Wolfe
- Thoughts on Theodore Roosevelt and John Hay after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
- These Generals Were the Closest of Enemies
- History Gives George H. W. Bush His Due
- On Margaret Chase Smith
- Richard Nixon's Example of Sanity in Washington
- On the Death of a Queen
- A Great Man Got Arrested as President
- Bob Dylan, a Genius Among Us
- 2. I Don't Mind Being Stern
- The Senator's Shorts and America's Decline
- Life Isn't Merde
- Get Ready for the Struggle Session
- The Left Is Overplaying Its Hand
- America Needs More Gentlemen
- Reflections on Impeachment, Twenty Years Later
- The Uvalde Police Scandal
- America Has Lost the Thread
- The Half-Madness of Prince Harry
- The Sexual-Harassment Racket Is Over
- Kids, Don't Become Success Robots
- What Were Robespierre's Pronouns?
- Scenes from the Class Struggle in Lockdown
- Bring 'Em to Justice
- Psychos in the C-Suite
- America's Universities Are Self-Destructing
- Democracy Is Not Your Plaything
- The Media Can't Keep Their Heads
- Where Did the Adults Go?
- 3. Try a Little Tenderness
- My Summer with Leo Tolstoy
- The Lonely Office Is Bad for America
- A Genius for Friendship
- America's Most Tumultuous Holy Week
- Think Like an Artist
- Out of the Ashes of Notre Dame
- On Uvalde: Let Not Our Hearts Grow Numb
- Coronavirus Will Change Everything
- Our New Coronavirus Reality
- What Comes After the Coronavirus Storm?
- Give Thanks for Taylor Swift
- 4. On America
- What's Become of the American Dream?
- A Continuing Miracle
- On Keeping Our Composure
- Wisdom of a Non-Idiot Billionaire
- "Which Way to Pointe du Hoc?"
- An American Song, an American Crisis
- A Week in the Life of a Worried Land
- "Home Again, and Home Again, America for Me"
- Spirits in the Skies of Summer
- The Pilgrims Take Manhattan
- We Need a Farsighted Conservatism
- Against the Tear-It-Down Movement
- Joe Biden Can't Resist the "River of Power"
- A Tabloid Legend on Jeffrey Epstein's Death
- Why the Titanic Keeps Drawing Us In
- The Protected Versus the Unprotected
- 5. It Appears He Didn't Take My Advice
- If Biden Runs, They'll Tear Him Up
- Imagine a Sane Donald Trump
- 6. Watch Out
- What I Wish Oppenheimer Had Said
- The Ukraine Crisis: Handle with Care
- It's the Unthinkable. We Must Think About It
- The October Horror Is Something New
- The Rape of the Israeli Women
- Al Is the Y2K Crisis, Only This Time It's Real
- We're Putting Humanity's Future into Silicon Valley's Hands
- Artificial Intelligence in the Garden of Eden
- What Might Have Been at Tora Bora
- 7. We Can Handle It
- Roe v. Wade Distorted Our Politics and Roiled Our Culture
- What Pro-Lifers Should Learn from Kansas
- John Paul II's Prescient 1995 Letter to Women
- Mrs. Smith's Tips for New Lawmakers
- Mind Your Manners, Says Edith Wharton
- The San Franoisco Rebellion
- The Kids Are Not All Right
- Save Capitalism!
- The President Has a Presentation Problem
- What Comes After Acheson's Creation?
- American Institutions Are Frailer than We Know
- The Century of the Postheroic Presidency
- Acknowledgments