Offers observations on the Reagan era, with insights into foreign policy and domestic affairs plus profiles of David Stockman, Lee Iacocca, Jesse Jackson, and Henry Kissinger

The Morning After: American Successes and Excesses 1981-1986

History

Will, George F.

Americas

Collier-Macmillan Publishers

Drawing on extensive interviews, the Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator profiles four key figures in professional baseball--outfielder Tony Gwynn, pitcher Orel Hershiser, shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr., and manager Tony LaRussa

Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball

Sports & Outdoors

Baseball

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Offers observations on the Reagan era, with insights into foreign policy and domestic affairs plus profiles of David Stockman, Lee Iacocca, Jesse Jackson, and Henry Kissinger

The Free Press

The author discusses the triumph of American democratic ideals abroad, the failings of the budget and the President, and other topics

Suddenly the American Idea Abroad and at Home 1986 to 1990

Free Press

A collection of writings recalls recent historical events in Eastern Europe, China, and the U.S.S.R and celebrates the success of U.S. foreign policy as opposed to the failures of domestic policy. Reprint. NYT.

Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home 1986-1990

The world's oldest democracy - ours - has an old tradition of skepticism about government. However, the degree of dismay about government today is perhaps unprecedented in our history. Americans are particularly convinced that Congress has become irresponsible, either unwilling or incapable of addressing the nation's problems - while it spends its time and our money on extending its members' careers. Many Americans have come to believe fundamental reform is needed, specifically limits on the number of terms legislators can serve. In Restoration, George Will makes a compelling case, drawn from our history and his close observance of Congress, that term limits are now necessary to revive the traditional values of classical republican government, to achieve the Founders' goal of deliberative democracy, and to restore Congress to competence and its rightful dignity as the First Branch of government. At stake, Will says, is the vitality of America's great promise self-government under representative institutions. At issue is the meaning of representation. The morality of representative government, Will argues, does not merely permit, it requires representatives to exercise independent judgment rather than merely execute instructions given by constituents. However, careerism, which is a consequence of the professionalization of politics, has made legislators servile and has made the national legislature incapable of rational, responsible behavior. Term limits would restore the constitutional space intended by the Founders, the healthy distance between the electors and the elected that is necessary for genuine deliberation about the public interest. Blending the political philosophy of the Founders with alarming facts about the behavior of legislative careerists, Restoration demonstrates how term limits, by altering the motives of legislators, can narrow the gap between the theory and the practice of American democracy.

Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy

Free Pr

A fifth collection of essays by a popular syndicated columnist examines the triumphs, misadventures, and foibles of the past four years, presenting his criticisms of the American government's values and its confused political goals. Major ad/promo.

The Levelling Wind: Politics, Culture and Other News

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Men and women are biological facts. Ladies and gentlemen - citizens - are social artifacts, works of political art. They carry the culture that is sustained by wise laws, and traditions of civility. At the end of the day we are right to judge a society by the character of the people it produces. The following essays deal with that and other sobering thoughts.

The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts

Harper&Row

A collection of newspaper and Newsweek essays convey Will's view of the nature of human character as he observes the behavior of humans as they pursue their goals in sports, television, childrearing, and many other public and private areas

The Pursuit of Happiness and Other Sobering Thoughts

Harpercollins

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“George Will on baseball. Perfect….A book of surpassing enthusiasm and intelligence.” 
—Los Angeles Times
Now with a new introduction, George F. Will’s classic bestseller, Men at Work, is back. The renowned author, political pundit, and diehard sports enthusiast discourses on the Great American Pastime in a work that stands with The Boys of Summer, Summer of ’49, All My Octobers, and The Glory of Their Times as one of the finest baseball books ever written. The New York Times Book Review calls it, “an excellent book about excellence,” while the St. Louis Post-Dispatch promises that, “anyone who truly loves the game…will find Men At Work thoroughly rewarding.” No doubt about it, George F. Will has hit a grand slam home run!

Men at Work

HarperPB

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The Morning After: American Successes and Excesses 1981-1986

Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball

The Morning After: American Successes and Excesses 1981-1986

Suddenly the American Idea Abroad and at Home 1986 to 1990

Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home 1986-1990

Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy

The Levelling Wind: Politics, Culture and Other News

The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts

The Pursuit of Happiness and Other Sobering Thoughts

Men at Work