With a Happy Eye But . . .: America and the World, 1997--2002 - Hardcover

Will, George F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684838214 ISBN 13: 9780684838212

Publisher: Free Press, 2002

Synopsis

A seventh collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist imparts his views on such topics as Whitewater, Monica Lewinsky, the impeachment trial of Clinton, the debate over partial-birth abortions, the 2000 election, baseball, and the deaths of his mentor and father. 75,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

GEORGE F. WILL is a columnist for the Washington Post Writer¹s Group and a contributing editor of Newsweek. He appears weekly on the ABC-TV program This Week. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, he lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

From Booklist:

Pundits pontificate: it's their job. But few seem to take as much pleasure in pontificating as syndicated columnist Will, a regular on ABC's Sunday-morning This Week. (Who but Will would title columns "What the Remorseless Improvers Have Wrought" or "Hillary Clinton's Insouciant Insincerity"?) Will is also a master at cross-platform synergy: this is his seventh collection, composed primarily of columns but also including commencement addresses and other pieces. (Each essay is dated, but previous publication data are omitted.) Several sections of the collection are relatively focused: "The World" addresses foreign policy; "Justice and Injustice," court decisions and legislation; "Reasonable Doubts," culture and lifestyle; "Contingencies Large and Small," politics; and "Regulating Campaigning," the campaign finance reform movement Will despises. Broader in scope are Will's opening "Overture," whose 28 essays range in subject from patriotism and the marines to the Unabomber, Rodney King, Tiger Woods, and Santa Claus; the section's last five pieces are year-end assessments of 1997 through 2001. Will closes with a "People" section whose subjects include Princess Diana, Hitler, C. S. Lewis, Joe DiMaggio, the late Washington Post columnist Meg Greenfield, Will's father, and Will himself at age 60. A wallow for Will fans but unlikely to convert the uncommitted. Mary Carroll
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About this edition

• Publisher: Free Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0684838214
• ISBN 13: 9780684838212
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384