The Time of Our Lives: Collected Writings Audiobook (Free)

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INCLUDES NEW COLUMNS THAT WON THE 2017 PULITZER Award FOR COMMENTARY

Witty, incisive, frequently prophetic and always original, The Time of Our Lives supplies the finest of Peggy Noonan’s writing. Today with a new preface and columns that bring us through the 2016 Election, the book travels the path of Peggy’s remarkable career displaying how she became perhaps one of the most influential voices in America.

The Time of Our Lives starts with a revealing article about Peggy’s motivations like a about The Time of Our Lives: Collected Writings writer and thinker. It’s accompanied by an address to learners at Harvard University or college on the drafting of Chief executive Reagan’s speech your day the space shuttle Challenger exploded. Then comes one unexpected chapter after the next including:

‘People I Miss’ – unforgettable salutes to the likes of Tim Russert, Joan Rivers, Margaret Thatcher, while others.

‘Making Problems’ – Peggy’s sharpest, funniest and most essential columns about Democrats and Republicans, the idiocracy of authorities, 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 place ahead in terms of war and sacrifice.

‘The Loneliest President Since Nixon’ – monitoring hope and switch since it became disillusionment and disappointment with President Obama.

And additional sections where Peggy discerns the mood of the united states (‘State from 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, ENOUGH TIME of Our Lives articulates Peggy’s traditional vision and provides reader a majestic family portrait of American lifestyle.