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A Certain Idea of America

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A Certain Idea of America

By: Peggy Noonan
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From Pulitzer-prize winning Wall Street Journal columnist and New York Times bestselling author Peggy Noonan, a masterclass in how to see and love America.

For a quarter century, Peggy Noonan has been thinking aloud about America in her much-loved Wall Street Journal column. In this new collection of her essential recent work, Noonan demonstrates the erudition, wisdom and humor that have made her one of America’s most admired writers.

She calls balls and strikes on the political shenanigans of recent leaders and she honors the integrity of great Americans, ranging from Billy Graham to the heroes of 9/11. A thinker who never allows her tenderness to slip into sentimentality, she writes with clear-eyed urgency about the internal and external dangers facing our republic. She sometimes writes with indignation, but above all she writes with love—and an enduring faith that America can be its best self, that its ideals are worth protecting, and that beauty and heroism can be found in our neighbors, in our history, and in ourselves. This book is a celebration of what America has been, is, and can be.

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Incisive, provocative, informative

Learning things that somehow I never considered or knew. Agreement with her views is not a given, but her explanations are clear, cogent and presented in an articulate, artful use of language. Should be required reading before being allowed to speak about politics

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Thoughtful

I'm a Democrat and I loved it. We don't agree on everything, but we do agree on many things. Take a leap and see how many things we have in common.

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off my reading-and admiration-lists.

Noonan reveals her journalistic inadequacies-& reveals her TDS..Ive read her for years; loved her skills as a writer & her observations.
But this deranged rant , in many chapters-though written in previous years-
was sick making. Whether or not you like him, he deserves more than castigating by a journalist who refuses to meet him
Don’t bother wasting time or money…
read one of Trump’s books instead, you’ll them decide for yourself.

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Boring

I thought this would be about how America could be and how we could get there. At first Seems like more of a list of people who have some credentials sharing there ideas

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For a book promoted on Fox news it was more consistent with Faux news. Not worth the time.

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