The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric - Hardcover

Will, George F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684825627 ISBN 13: 9780684825625

Publisher: Scribner, 1997

Synopsis

In a collection of essays, the author addresses such topics as inflation, the Gingrich revolution, and the arrogance of government and its inability to correct human nature

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Review:

The sixth collection of George Will's syndicated op-ed columns finds the iconic conservative pundit complaining about abuse of the battered-woman syndrome defense and other "excuses" offered up in courts, overglorification of multiculturalism, the double entendres on Friends in the months before the 1996 presidential election, and an assortment of other manifestations of declining cultural values. ("When parents cannot watch early-evening television with their children without wincing, their distress will take on political coloration, and the winner of the nation's premier political office is apt to be he who best exemplifies credible disgust with what distresses them.") He also finds rays of hope, such as Eugene F. Rivers, a Jesuit who ministers to the people of Dorchester, Massachusetts, and the diligence of Cal Ripken: "On September 6, [1995] the nation was mesmerized by the spectacle of a man going to work, as usual. He works between Second and Third in Baltimore."

About the Author:

George F. Will is a columnist for the Washington Post Writer's Group, a contributing editor of Newsweek, and a regular guest on the weekly ABC-TV program This Week. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, he lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0684825627
• ISBN 13: 9780684825625
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384