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George F Will's Reading List

The political columnist and author, most recently, of "The Conservative Sensibility" has no love for Holden Caulfield: "Just what the world does not need: another sullen adolescent."

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By the Book: George F Will (2019)

NYT By the Book column (2019-05-31).

Source: www.nytimes.com

The British Are Coming
Rick Atkinson · Buy on Amazon
"Its excellence equals that of his Liberation trilogy, the story of United States forces in World War II's European theater."
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin
David Quammen · Buy on Amazon
"David Quammen's "The Reluctant Mr. Darwin" teaches how thrilling intellectual steadfastness — following facts wherever they lead — can be."
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All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren · Buy on Amazon
"Populism — lawlessness in the service of curdled envy and resentment — has returned, so readers should return to "All the King's Men" (1946). Robert Penn Warren's roman à clef about Louisiana's Huey Long still resonates."
Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler · Buy on Amazon
"To understand the Republican Party's descent into a cult, and congressional Republicans' loyalty-as-lobotomy, read Arthur Koestler's novel of the Soviet Union in the 1930s, "Darkness at Noon.""
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 · Buy on Amazon
""The Great Gatsby," for the perils of life lived as a series of gestures."
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Middlemarch
George Eliot · 1871 · Buy on Amazon
""Middlemarch," because Virginia Woolf was on to something when she called it "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.""
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle
George V. Higgins · Buy on Amazon
"George Pelecanos's crime novels are set in Washington, D.C. Pelecanos's best are comparable to George V. Higgins's 1970 masterpiece, "The Friends of Eddie Coyle.""
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Hiroshima
John Hersey · Buy on Amazon
"It is short. It is high journalism. And he who has the nuclear launch codes, and who talks loosely about unleashing "fire and fury," should glimpse what that can mean."
Studs Lonigan
James T. Farrell · Buy on Amazon
"My first adolescent plunge into serious novels was James T. Farrell's trilogy about a Chicago adolescent, Studs Lonigan."

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