American Happiness and Discontents av George F. Will

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<DIV><B>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.</B><BR/> <BR/>George F. Will has been one of this country’s leading columnists since 1974. He won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1977. The <I>Wall Street Journal</I> 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.<BR/> <BR/>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 Address