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With a happy eye but-- America and the world, 1997-2002

Title: With a happy eye but-- America and the world, 1997-2002 / George F. Will.
Author: Will, George F.
Publication: New York : Free Press, ©2002.

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Description

xv, 367 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The 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.

Subject

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

To the "Gallant Girls" (Just Kidding) of National Cathedral School -- Chicks with Sticks -- Marines, Rough and Polished -- A Summons to Gratitude -- In Praise of Fierce Patriotism -- The Unabomber and American Squeamishness -- The Unabomber's Sanity -- The Black-Lung Disease of the Intelligentsia -- Minibars and Family Values in Vegas -- The Anthropology of Latte Towns -- Et Tu, Brooks Brothers? -- Secrecy and the Mother of Stupidity -- The Triumph of "Perceptions" -- Rodney King Revisited -- Victimhood as an Equal Opportunity Condition -- The Census and Tiger Woods -- Making Uniforms into Billboards -- Oh, Swell. New York Wins Again -- Nykesha Sales Misses the Point -- 1951 Diminished -- Fifty-one Two-Bit Solutions -- Santa and His 214,200 Reindeer -- NASA and the Meaning, if Any, of Life -- 1997: Year of Living Dangerously -- 1998: Not in Good Taste -- 1999: Satisfactory, Sort Of -- 2000: The Most Interesting Year of the Millennium, So Far -- 2001: Ring the Bells Backward -- The World -- War Beyond the World of Westphalia -- The Relevance of General Sherman -- The Healthy Aspect of War -- Next, Weapons of Mass Disruption? -- Scary Scenarios from a Decorous Cassandra -- Arms Control by F-16 -- The End of Human Nature, Not History -- New Consequences for Old Ideas -- Disintegration -- Language and the Logic of Events -- Kosovo and America's Identity -- Russia's Long Crawl Up from Communism -- Italy's Fifty-ninth Postwar Try -- Cheddar Man and the Abolition of Britain -- The European Union's Lawlessness -- Denmark and Goliath.

ISBN

0684838214
9780684838212

LCCN

2002072206

OCLC

ocm49894603
49894603
SCSB-1262664

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library