The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts write by George F. Will. This book was released on 1978. The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Pursuit of Happiness, and Other Sobering Thoughts
The Pursuit of Happiness, and Other Sobering Thoughts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pursuit of Happiness, and Other Sobering Thoughts write by George F. Will. This book was released on 1978. The Pursuit of Happiness, and Other Sobering Thoughts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Columns originally published in Newsweek and the Washington Post which deal with human nature and contemporary American life and politics.
The Postmodernist Turn
The Postmodernist Turn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Postmodernist Turn write by J. David Hoeveler. This book was released on 2004. The Postmodernist Turn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the 1970s, the United States became the world's preeminent postindustrial society. The new conditions changed the way Americans lived and worked, and even their perceptions of reality. Americans struggled to find their place in a world where symbol became more important than fact, appearance more important than reality, where image supplanted essence. In this reassessment of a little studied decade, J. David Hoeveler, Jr., finds that the sense of detachment and dislocation that characterizes the postindustrial society serves as a paradigm for American thought and culture in the 1970s. The book examines major developments in literary theory, philosophy, architecture, and painting as expressions of a 1970s consciousness. Hoeveler also explores the rival "political" readings of these subjects and considers the postmodernist phenomenon as it became an ideological battleground in the decade. Clear and engaging, the work will be of great interest to historians, theorists, and everyone who wants to further explore the 1970s.
Watch on the Right
Watch on the Right - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Watch on the Right write by J. David Hoeveler. This book was released on 1991. Watch on the Right available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ascendancy of conservatism in the last twenty years is an unprecedented episode in American intellectual and political history. In Watch on the Right, J. David Hoeveler Jr. gives us enlightening, often immensely entertaining, portraits of the key thinkers behind this "revolution." As Hoeveler writes, "conservative thinkers hang their hats on many different racks," and this book dramatizes for us the breadth of the conservative coalition as exemplified by the eight writers surveyed: William F. Buckley Jr. George Will, Robert Nisbet, Irving Kristol, Hilton Kramer, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., and Michael Novak. These eight "gurus" of the right represent a very wide spectrum of conservative thought, but Hoeveler also considers the present-day conservative renaissance against the literary background that has given the movement its identity since Edmund Burke. Amid the multiple voices unifying themes do emerge. American conservatives share a hostility toward the liberal "new class"--the professional media and academic elites and the entrenched government bureaucracies that still believe in the perfectibility of society by enforced social engineering. Moreover, conservatives of all persuasions are united in struggling to sustain traditional values against the onslaught of revolutionary capitalism and technology, and all are profoundly hostile to imperialistic communism on the Soviet model. Despite the existence of a generic conservatism, however, Hoeveler's portraits provide us with a fascinating tour of the shifts and turns in modern social thought from the decline of liberalism in the late 1960s to the current era--a path that leads through such diverse areas as the Cold War, bourgeois culture, art and aesthetics, civil rights and the welfare state, New Age culture, and the gender revolution. To a whole generation that has never known anything but conservative leadership, Watch on the Right will explain, in clear accessible prose, how the movement flourished in the 1970s and 1980s. For readers who saw it happen (but never thought it would) and for liberals (who are feverishly trying to recover "their " mandate), this book as no other pulls the ideological threads of the story together. Watch on the Right is illustrated with delightful pen-and-ink caricatures.
American Happiness and Discontents
American Happiness and Discontents - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Happiness and Discontents write by George F. Will. This book was released on 2021-09-14. American Happiness and Discontents available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examine the ways in which expertise, reason, and manners are continually under attack in our institutions, courts, political arenas, and social venues with this collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist. George F. Will has been one of this country’s leading columnists since 1974. He won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1977. The Wall Street Journal once called him “perhaps the most powerful journalist in America.” In this new collection, he examines a remarkably unsettling thirteen years in our nation’s experience, from 2008 to 2020. Included are a number of columns about court cases, mostly from the Supreme Court, that illuminate why the composition of the federal judiciary has become such a contentious subject. Other topics addressed include the American Revolutionary War, historical figures from Frederick Douglass to JFK, as well as a scathing assessment of how State of the Union Addresses are delivered in the modern day. Mr. Will also offers his perspective on American socialists, anti-capitalist conservatives, drug policy, the criminal justice system, climatology, the Coronavirus, the First Amendment, parenting, meritocracy and education, China, fascism, authoritarianism, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, and the morality of enjoying football. American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020 is a collection packed with wisdom and leavened by humor from one the preeminent columnists and intellectuals of our time.
