One Man's America The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation
, by WILL, GEORGE
- ISBN: 9780307454362 | 0307454363
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/17/2009
With Will's signature erudition and wry wit always on display, "One Man's America" chronicles a spectacular, eclectic procession of figures who have shaped the cultural landscape--from Hugh Hefner to William F. Buckley Jr.
GEORGE F. WILL writes a twice-weekly column that is syndicated in more than 450 newspapers, as well as a back-page column in Newsweek that runs biweekly. He also appears each Sunday on the ABC News program This Week. The author of twelve other books, Will is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary and the Bradley Prize for Outstanding Intellectual Achievement. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
From the Hardcover edition.
From the Hardcover edition.
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| People | |
| The Fun of | p. 9 |
| Buckley: A Life Athwart History | p. 11 |
| Proud Anachronism | p. 13 |
| "Cheerful Malcontent" | p. 15 |
| Thoughts on Death | p. 23 |
| The Tamarack Tree of American Politics | p. 25 |
| What George McGovern Made | p. 28 |
| The Senate's Sisyphus | p. 30 |
| Galbraith's Liberalism as Condescension | p. 32 |
| Ebullient Master of the Dismal Science | p. 35 |
| High-Achieving Minimalist | p. 37 |
| The Not-at-All Dull | p. 40 |
| George Washington's Long Journey Home | p. 42 |
| The Most Important American Never to Have Been President | p. 44 |
| Well, Yes, of Course | p. 46 |
| Longfellow: A Forgotten Founder | p. 49 |
| The Steel Behind the Smile | p. 52 |
| Reagan and the Vicissitudes of Historical Judgments | p. 54 |
| "A Flame Rescued from Dry Wood" | p. 57 |
| An Enlightenment Fundamentalist | p. 59 |
| Tuning Fork of American Fantasies | p. 61 |
| The Emeritus Beat as Tourist Attraction | p. 63 |
| Buck Owens's Bakersfield Sound | p. 65 |
| Seventy-nine-Pound Master of Tourette Syndrome | p. 68 |
| Simeon Wright's Grace | p. 70 |
| Paths To The Present | |
| The Most Important American War You Know Next-to-Nothing About | p. 75 |
| The Amazing Banality of Flight | p. 77 |
| The Price of Misreading the Prairie Sky | p. 79 |
| "A Range of Mountains on the Move" | p. 81 |
| The Emblematic Novel of the 1930s (No, It Is Not About the Joads) | p. 84 |
| All Quiet at the Overpass | p. 86 |
| FDR's Transformation of Liberalism | p. 88 |
| Retailers Give Thanks for Thanksgiving (and FDR) | p. 91 |
| FDR's Christmas Guest from Hell | p. 93 |
| "My Place Is with My Shipmates" | p. 95 |
| An Anthem of American Optimism-in 1943 | p. 97 |
| When War Was the Answer | p. 100 |
| Catching Up to Captain Philip | p. 102 |
| The Most Fateful Heart Attack in American History | p. 104 |
| How Ike's Highways Helped Heal Civil War Wounds | p. 107 |
| The Short, Unhappy Life of the Edsel | p. 109 |
| The Fifties in Our Rearview Mirror | p. 111 |
| 2002: Superstitions Are Bad Luck | p. 114 |
| 2003: Lingerie and Duct Tape | p. 116 |
| 2004: The Passion of the Christ and The Passions of the Faculty Clubs | p. 118 |
| 2005: "In Lieu of Flowers, Please Send Acerbic Letters to Republicans" | p. 121 |
| 2006: "Go Ahead, We Will Get into One of the Other Boats" | p. 123 |
| 2007: Ready, Fire, Aim | p. 126 |
| Governing | |
| The Two Americas: Hard and Soft | p. 131 |
| Angela Jobe's Resilience | p. 133 |
| Conservatism's Infrastructure | p. 135 |
| Against "National Greatness Conservatism" | p. 138 |
| Summa Contra Reagan Nostalgia | p. 140 |
| The Left's Plea for Materialistic Politics | p. 142 |
| Constitutional Monomania | p. 145 |
| Judicial Activism, Wise and Not | p. 147 |
| The Hard Truth About "Soft Rights" | p. 149 |
| Oologah's-and America's-Slide | p. 151 |
| A Fraudulent "Fairness" | p. 154 |
| Policing Speech in Oakland | p. 156 |
| Liberalism's Itch in Minneapolis | p. 159 |
| Chicago: From the White City to the Green City | p. 161 |
| Our Moralizing Tax Code | p. 164 |
| "Electronic Morphine" on the Ohio River | p. 166 |
| Prohibition II: Interestingly Selective | p. 168 |
| Being Green at Ben &c Jerry's | p. 171 |
| The Tyranny of the Small Picture | p. 174 |
| Draining the Reservoir of Reverence | p. 176 |
| United 93: "We've Got to Do It Ourselves" | p. 178 |
| Nothing Changes Everything | p. 181 |
| Sensibilities And Sensitivities | |
| Narcissism as News | p. 187 |
| The Speciesism of Featherless Bipeds | p. 189 |
| What We Owe to What We Eat | p. 191 |
| The Holocaust: Handcrafted | p. 194 |
| The "Daring" of the Avant-Garde Yet Again | p. 196 |
| Anti-Semitism Across the Political Spectrum | p. 199 |
| When Harry Remet Hanne | p. 201 |
| Cars as Mobile Sculpture | p. 203 |
| Hog Heaven: Happy One Hundredth, Harley | p. 206 |
| Restoration at 346 Madison | p. 208 |
| Starbucks, Nail Salons, and the Aesthetic Imperative | p. 210 |
| Manners vs. Social Autism | p. 213 |
| A Punctuation Vigilante | p. 215 |
| America's Literature of Regret | p. 217 |
| Chief Illiniwek and the Indignation Industry | p. 220 |
| Christmas at Our Throats | p. 222 |
| Learning | |
| National Amnesia and Planting Cut Flowers | p. 227 |
| A Sensory Blitzkrieg of Surfaces | p. 229 |
| "Philosophy Teaching by Examples" | p. 231 |
| Fascinating Contingencies | p. 233 |
| Ed Schools vs. Education | p. 235 |
| This Just In from the Professors: Conservatism Is a Mental Illness | p. 238 |
| The Law of Group Polarization in Academia | p. 240 |
| Antioch College's Epitaph | p. 243 |
| A Scholar's Malfeasance Gunned Down | p. 245 |
| Juggling Scarves in the Therapeutic Nation | p. 247 |
| Nature, Nurture, and Larry Summers's Sin | p. 250 |
| AP Harry Applies to College | p. 252 |
| Teaching Minnows the Pleasure of Precision | p. 255 |
| Games | |
| Raising Michael Oher | p. 261 |
| The Man from Moro Bottom | p. 266 |
| "Rammer Jammer Yellowhammer!" | p. 268 |
| Randy Shannon's Realism | p. 270 |
| The NFL: An Intensification of Reality | p. 272 |
| Speaking Sports Centerese | p. 275 |
| The Movie, and the Truth, About Texas Western | p. 277 |
| The Game | |
| "Remember 1908!" | p. 283 |
| The Possible and the Inevitable | p. 286 |
| "I Can't Stand It, I'm So Good" | p. 288 |
| "We Think He Can Hit" | p. 291 |
| "Watch This-the First-Base Coach May Be Going to the Hospital" | p. 294 |
| Take Me Out to the Metric | p. 296 |
| Elias Knows Everything | p. 299 |
| The Game's Gifted Eccentrics | p. 301 |
| Don't Beat a Dead Horse in the Mouth | p. 305 |
| The Golden Age | p. 307 |
| Always Hustling | p. 310 |
| The Precious, Precarious Equipoise | p. 312 |
| Enhanced and Devalued | p. 314 |
| The Methodical | p. 319 |
| Realism Among the RiverDogs | p. 321 |
| Striving for Motel Years | p. 323 |
| Seeking Anonymous Perfection | p. 326 |
| "Where Baseball?" | p. 328 |
| Wondering | |
| Incest at "a Genetically Discreet Remove" | p. 333 |
| An Intellectual Hijacking | p. 335 |
| From Dayton, Tennessee, to Rhode Island's Committee on Fish and Game | p. 339 |
| Earth: Not Altogether Intelligently Designed | p. 341 |
| Intelligent Design and Unintelligent Movies | p. 344 |
| The Pope, the Neurosurgeon, and the Ghost in the Machine | p. 346 |
| How Biology Buttresses Moratality, Which Conforms to...Biology | p. 348 |
| The Space Program's Search for...Us | p. 351 |
| Nuclear Waste: That's Us | p. 353 |
| The Loudest Sound in Human Experience | p. 355 |
| L = BB + pw + BC/BF | p. 358 |
| Wonder What We Are For? Wondering | p. 360 |
| Matters Of Life And Death | |
| Golly, What Did Jon Do? | p. 365 |
| The Long Dying of Louise Will | p. 367 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 370 |
| Permissions | p. 371 |
| Index | p. 373 |
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