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From America's preeminent columnist, called by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, the long-awaited assortment of Charles Krauthammer's essential, classic writings. An excellent stylist known for an uncompromising integrity that challenges standard intelligence at every flip, Krauthammer has for decades dazzled readers with his keen understanding into politics and government. His weekly column is a must-read in Washington and in the united states. Now, finally, the best of Krauthammer's cleverness, erudition, and wit are collected in one quantity. Listeners will find here not only the country's leading conservative thinker, supplying a passionate protection of limited government, but also a highly independent head whose views - on feminism, progression, and the fatality charges, for example - defy ideological convention. Things That Matter also features many of Krauthammer's major path-breaking essays - on bioethics, on Jewish future, and on America's role as the world's superpower - which may have profoundly influenced the country's thoughts and plans. And finally, the collection presents a trove of always penetrating, often bemused reflections on everything from boundary collies to Halley's Comet, from Woody Allen to Winston Churchill, from the punishing pleasures of velocity chess to the elegance of the correctly thrown outfield assist. With a particular, highly autobiographical launch, where Krauthammer reflects on the occasions that molded his profession and political philosophy, this indispensable chronicle needs the listener on a remarkable voyage through the fashions and follies, the tragedies and triumphs, of the last three ages of American life.
