Things That Matter
Subtitle: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
Publisher: Crown Forum
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780385349178
Description: America's preeminent columnist presents his penetrating and surprising reflections on everything from embryo research to entitlement reform, from Halley's Comet to border collies, from Christopher Columbus to Martin Luther King, from drone warfare to American decline. Features a special, highly autobiographical introduction.
Table of contents: title: Part one : Personal.; title: The good and the great; title: Manners; title: Pride and prejudices; title: Follies; title: Passions and pastimes; title: Heaven and earth; title: Part two : Political.; title: Citizen and state; title: Conundrums; title: Body and soul; title: Man and God; title: Memory and monuments; title: Part three : Historical.; title: The Jewish question, again; title: The golden age; title: The age of holy terror; title: The age to come; title: Part four : Global.; title: Three essays on America and the world.; title: The unipolar moment (1990); title: Democratic realism (2004); title: Decline is a choice (2009)