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Things that matter [LP] three decades of passions, pastimes, and politics

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, h...

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Main Author: Krauthammer, Charles, 1950-2018
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Random House Large Print, [2014]
Edition: First large print edition.
Subjects:
Oldham, Helen G. tribute
Krauthammer, Charles, > 1950-2018,
Popular culture > United States > History.
United States > Politics and government.
United States > Civilization.
Large print books.
Summary: 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.
Item Description: Selected essays previously published in various periodicals and journals.
Includes index.
Physical Description: 526 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780804194518 :
0804194513 :
Author Notes: Charles Krauthammer was born in Manhattan, New York on March 13, 1950. He received a degree in political science and economics from McGill University in 1970 and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1975. In 1978, he was a research director at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington and started getting articles about politics published in The New Republic. He started working for The New Republic full time in 1981 and wrote regularly for them until 2011. He also wrote regularly for Time magazine from 1983 to 2018 and a weekly column for The Washington Post from 1985 to 2018. He was a nightly panelist on Fox News's Special Report with Bret Baier for ten years and a panelist on PBS's Inside Washington from 1990 to 2013.

He received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1987 for his Washington Post columns and the William F. Buckley Award for Media Excellence. His books included Cutting Edges: Making Sense of the Eighties, Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World, and Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics. He died from cancer of the small intestine on June 21, 2018 at the age of 68.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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