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With a Happy Eye But . . . : America and the World, 1997--2002
With a Happy Eye But America and the World 19972002
Author: George F. Will
In the introduction to this, the seventh collection of the newspaper and magazine columns, book reviews, speeches, and occasional writings of George Will, he notes the bemusement with which some may react to his choice of title. W. H. Auden wrote his poem The Horatians from which the following lines are taken: We can only do wha...  more » The poem was written in 1968. It was a year notable in the United States for assassination, riot, war, and political violence unseen for the preceeding 100 years. If humanity could be instructed to view that world with a happy eye, can America today do any less, faced with the clearest and most coherent expression of national unity since the Second World War? With a Happy Eye But . . . is both a clear description of the attitude that informs these collected pieces (and the attitude of their creator) and an admonition to Americans.
ISBN-13: 9780684838212
ISBN-10: 0684838214
Publication Date: 9/19/2002
Pages: 384
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Publisher: Free Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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