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The point of it all a lifetime of great loves and endeavors [LP]

"Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, this collection spans the personal, political and philosophical--including never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about the effect of today's populist movements on the future of global democracy."--Provided...

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Main Author: Krauthammer, Charles, 1950-2018 (Author)
Other Authors: Krauthammer, Daniel, 1985- (Editor), Krauthammer, Charles, 1950-2018.
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language: English
Published: New York : Random House Large Print, [2018]
Edition: First large print edition.
Subjects:
Krauthammer, Charles, > 1950-2018.
Political science.
Popular culture > United States > History.
United States > Politics and government.
Essays.
Large print books.
Summary: "Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, this collection spans the personal, political and philosophical--including never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about the effect of today's populist movements on the future of global democracy."--Provided by publisher.
Item Description: Includes index.
Physical Description: xli, 490 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781984891594
1984891596
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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