The Time of Our Lives: Politics, Passions, and Provocations
The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Commentary and conservative icon Peggy Noonan offers her most insightful work, including her Wall Street Journal columns about the 2016 Election.

New York Times bestseller The Time of Our Lives travels the path of Peggy Noonan's remarkable and influential career, beginning with a revealing essay about her motivations as a writer and thinker. It's followed by an address to students at Harvard University on the drafting of President Reagan's speech the day the space shuttle Challenger exploded. Then comes one surprising chapter after the next including:

"People I Miss" — memorable salutes to the likes of Tim Russert, Joan Rivers, Margaret Thatcher, and others.

"Making Trouble" — Peggy's sharpest, funniest and most critical columns about Democrats and Republicans, the idiocracy of government, and Beltway disconnect.

"I Just Called to Say I Love You" — Peggy's most poignant writing capturing the country's grief and recovery in the wake of 9-11, and clear-eyed foresight on what lay ahead in terms of war and sacrifice.

"The Loneliest President Since Nixon" — tracking hope and change as it became disillusionment and disappointment with President Obama.

And other sections where Peggy discerns the mood of the country ("State of the Union"), the melodrama of the historic 2008 election ("My Beautiful Election"), her battles with the Catholic Church ("What I Told the Bishops") and lighter meditations on baseball, a snowy afternoon in Brooklyn, and motherhood ("Having Fun").

Annotated throughout, The Time of Our Lives articulates Peggy's conservative vision, demonstrating why she has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, journalism's highest honor.
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The Time of Our Lives: Politics, Passions, and Provocations
The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Commentary and conservative icon Peggy Noonan offers her most insightful work, including her Wall Street Journal columns about the 2016 Election.

New York Times bestseller The Time of Our Lives travels the path of Peggy Noonan's remarkable and influential career, beginning with a revealing essay about her motivations as a writer and thinker. It's followed by an address to students at Harvard University on the drafting of President Reagan's speech the day the space shuttle Challenger exploded. Then comes one surprising chapter after the next including:

"People I Miss" — memorable salutes to the likes of Tim Russert, Joan Rivers, Margaret Thatcher, and others.

"Making Trouble" — Peggy's sharpest, funniest and most critical columns about Democrats and Republicans, the idiocracy of government, and Beltway disconnect.

"I Just Called to Say I Love You" — Peggy's most poignant writing capturing the country's grief and recovery in the wake of 9-11, and clear-eyed foresight on what lay ahead in terms of war and sacrifice.

"The Loneliest President Since Nixon" — tracking hope and change as it became disillusionment and disappointment with President Obama.

And other sections where Peggy discerns the mood of the country ("State of the Union"), the melodrama of the historic 2008 election ("My Beautiful Election"), her battles with the Catholic Church ("What I Told the Bishops") and lighter meditations on baseball, a snowy afternoon in Brooklyn, and motherhood ("Having Fun").

Annotated throughout, The Time of Our Lives articulates Peggy's conservative vision, demonstrating why she has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, journalism's highest honor.
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The Time of Our Lives: Politics, Passions, and Provocations

The Time of Our Lives: Politics, Passions, and Provocations

by Peggy Noonan
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The Time of Our Lives: Politics, Passions, and Provocations

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The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Commentary and conservative icon Peggy Noonan offers her most insightful work, including her Wall Street Journal columns about the 2016 Election.

New York Times bestseller The Time of Our Lives travels the path of Peggy Noonan's remarkable and influential career, beginning with a revealing essay about her motivations as a writer and thinker. It's followed by an address to students at Harvard University on the drafting of President Reagan's speech the day the space shuttle Challenger exploded. Then comes one surprising chapter after the next including:

"People I Miss" — memorable salutes to the likes of Tim Russert, Joan Rivers, Margaret Thatcher, and others.

"Making Trouble" — Peggy's sharpest, funniest and most critical columns about Democrats and Republicans, the idiocracy of government, and Beltway disconnect.

"I Just Called to Say I Love You" — Peggy's most poignant writing capturing the country's grief and recovery in the wake of 9-11, and clear-eyed foresight on what lay ahead in terms of war and sacrifice.

"The Loneliest President Since Nixon" — tracking hope and change as it became disillusionment and disappointment with President Obama.

And other sections where Peggy discerns the mood of the country ("State of the Union"), the melodrama of the historic 2008 election ("My Beautiful Election"), her battles with the Catholic Church ("What I Told the Bishops") and lighter meditations on baseball, a snowy afternoon in Brooklyn, and motherhood ("Having Fun").

Annotated throughout, The Time of Our Lives articulates Peggy's conservative vision, demonstrating why she has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, journalism's highest honor.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781455563135
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication date: 04/18/2017
Pages: 544
Sales rank: 626,412
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.80(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

The 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner for Commentary, Peggy Noonan is the author of nine books, a weekly columnist for the Wall Street Journal, and was a primary speechwriter and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan. Six of Noonan's books have been New York Times bestsellers. Noonan is a trustee of the Manhattan Institute. She makes regular appearances on CBS's Face the Nation, ABC's This Week, and NBC's Meet The Press.

Table of Contents

Preface xiii

Introduction xv

1 A Lecture 1

2 People I Miss 11

A Life's Lesson 13

Joan Rivers: The Entertainer 17

Americas First Lady 24

"Tennessee Williams Died a Week Ago Today" 29

Britain Remembers a Great Briton 33

Thanks from a Grateful Country 38

3 As I Was Telling Kate … 45

Those Who Make Us Say "Oh!" 46

A Day at the Beach 50

How to Find Grace after Disgrace 54

"Oh Wow!" 58

The Royal Wedding 62

4 America, America 64

"Is That Allowed?" "It Is Here," 65

On Letting Go 69

"To Old Times" 73

A Cold Man's Warm Words 77

America Is at Risk of Boiling Over 81

What the World Sees in America 85

5 Having Fun 89

American Diversity and the Wild West 90

Next Year Stay Home, America 94

Snow Day 98

Nobody's Perfect, but They Were Good 103

Scenes from a Confirmation 107

Old Jersey Real 113

6 Making Trouble 117

"Dutch" Is Shocking Because It Is Simply Awful 118

American Caligula 123

Way Too Much God 129

Further Thoughts on the Passions of the Inaugural 134

Time for an Intervention 140

The View from Gate 14 146

The Trigger-Happy Generation 150

The Wisdom of "Mr. Republican" 154

7 What I Told the Bishops 158

What I Told the Bishops 159

How to Save the Catholic Church 165

"Go and Repair My House" 169

Cardinal, Please Spare This Church 173

8 Uneasy Pieces 177

You'd Cry Too If It Happened to You 180

There Is No Time, There Will Be Time 193

9 I Just Called to Say I Love You 203

His Delicious, Mansard-Roofed World 204

Miracle on Fulton Street 215

Courage under Fire 227

Welcome Back, Duke 235

Time to Put the Emotions Aside 241

The Nightmare and the Dreams 245

I Just Called to Say I Love You 251

Eleven/9/11 255

A Masterpiece of a Museum 260

10 War 264

What the Intrepid Said 265

A Time for Grace 267

The World the Great War Swept Away 271

A New Kind of "Credibility" Gap 275

On Setting an Example 279

Can the Republican Party Recover from Iraq? 283

What America Thinks about Iraq 288

11 What I Saw at the Evacuation 292

Russia, the Big Picture 293

Why We Talk about Reagan 297

What I Saw at the Evacuation 301

12 My Beautiful Election 309

Sex and the Presidency 310

Over the Top 314

Pity Party 318

Sex and the Sissy 323

McCain Represents the Way We Were, Obama What We Are Becoming 327

The End of Placeness 331

Obama and the Runaway Train 335

13 The Loneliest President since Nixon 339

The Special Assistant for Reality 340

The Loneliest President since Nixon 345

Lafayette, We Are Not Here 349

What a Disaster Looks Like 352

14 A Republic, If We Can Keep It 356

We Live in an Age of Great Wealth-and Lousy Manners 357

The Rise of the White-Collar Big-Money Psychopath 361

We All Know Too Much about One Another 368

What We Lose if We Give Up Privacy 373

The MSM Ls Suffering from Freedom Envy 377

Campaigns Have Always Been Negative but They Haven't Always Been Ubiquitous 383

What Does It Mean That Your First Act on Entering a Country Is Breaking Its Law? 388

Slow Down and Absorb 394

We Need to Talk 398

15 State of the Union 402

A Time to Get Serious 403

George H. W. Bush's Defeat 409

The Risk of Catastrophic Victory 414

Meanwhile, Back in America… 418

A Separate Peace 422

Politics in the Modest Age 428

16 The Moment It Hits You 432

Socialism Gets a Second Life 433

Trump and the Rise of the Unprotected 438

The Republican Party Is Shattering 442

That Moment When 2016 Hits You 446

Trump Was a Spark, Not the Fire 450

A Wounded Boy's Silence, and the Candidates 454

Remembering a Hero, 15 Years After 9/11 458

The Year of the Reticent Voter 462

No More Business as Usual, Mr. Trump 466

In Celebration of Modest Christmases Past 470

Acknowledgments 475

Index 477

About the Author 489

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