America's preeminent columnist presents his penetrating and surprising reflections on everything from embryo resear
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English Year 2013
Table of contents :
Content: Personal. The good and the great
Manners
Pride and prejudices
Follies
Passions and pastimes
Heaven and earth --
Political. Citizen and state
Conundrums
Body and soul
Man and God
Memory and monuments --
Historical. The Jewish question, again
The golden age
The age of holy terror
The age to come
Three essays on America and the world