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George Will

Born: 1941 in Champaign, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Born in Champaign, Illinois.

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George Will on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=george+will


Selected Titles

Bunts /
ISBN: 0684853744 OCLC: 41412164

Simon & Schuster, New York, NY : 1999.

Men at work :
ISBN: 0061999814 OCLC: 475458932

An analysis of the game of baseball profiles four key figures--Tony Gwynn, Orel Hershiser, Cal Ripken, Jr., and Tony LaRussa--and includes historical trivia, anecdotes, and conversations with players, managers, and coaches.

Men at work :
ISBN: 9780062007759 OCLC: 680277346

Harper, New York : 2010.

In his classic tribute to America's pastime?now with a new introduction?political commentator, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and lifelong sports enthusiast George F. Will travels from the baseball field to the dugout to the locker room to get to the root of the game we all love. He breaks down the sport to its four basic components, managing, pitching, hitting, and fielding, and analyzes the way four of its notables, manager Tony La Russa, pitcher Orel Hershiser, outfielder Tony Gwynn, and shortstop Cal Ripken Jr., approach the game. One of the most acclaimed sports books ever written, Men at Work is a revelatory, and often surprising, study of professional baseball.

  Statecraft as soulcraft
ISBN: 0786102772 OCLC: 25515302

Blackstone Audio Books, Ashland, OR : ℗1991.

In Statecraft as Soulcraft, George F. Will examines the belief, which dates back to the founding of the nation, that there is no right principle of action but self-interest. He questions the founding fathers' faith that moral balance and national cohesiveness will arise merely out of the government's encouragement of the free operation of opposite and rival interests. Two hundred years later, says Will, it just hasn't worked out that way. Instead, we have become a nation of individuals and interest groups given to habitual self-indulgence in the unchecked pursuit of material acquisitions and private passions. Much of the fault, he says, may be traced to our inadequate understanding of the guiding role that government can and should play in determining the country's moral character. Proper government, Will says, involves the cultivation of good character in its citizens. This is what he means by statecraft as soulcraft.

Statecraft as soulcraft :
ISBN: 0671427342 OCLC: 71272136

Simon & Schuster, New York : 1984, ©1983.

The conservative thinker and columnist reflects on the fundamental beliefs of American political theory, questioning the sufficiency of the principle of competing self-interests as a basis for society and arguing for a more broadly based interpretation of the role of government.

Suddenly :
ISBN: 0029344360 OCLC: 28402335

Free Press ; New York : 1992, ©1991.

  Suddenly The American Idea Abroad and at Home 1986-1990
ISBN: 0684863812 OCLC: 171549755

Free Press 1998

The leveling wind :
ISBN: 0140247025 OCLC: 34159512

Penguin Books, New York : 1995, ©1994.

  The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts /
ISBN: 006090738X OCLC: 6242962

Harper & Row, New York : 1979, ©1978.

The Woven Figure
ISBN: 9780684864587 OCLC: 1085164658

Scribner, New York : 1999.

The woven figure :
ISBN: 0684848201 OCLC: 40571677

Simon & Schuster, New York, NY : 1998, ©1997.

With a happy eye but-- America and the world, 1997-2002 /
ISBN: 0743243846 OCLC: 53945011

Free Press, New York : 2003.

 

 

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