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The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful collection of the influential columnist’s most important works—featuring rare speeches, a major essay about today’s populist movements and the future of global democracy, and a new preface by the author’s son, Daniel Krauthammer

“Charles will be remembered as one of the greatest public intellects of his generation.”—John McCain
 
In his decades of work as America’s preeminent political commentator, whether writing about statecraft and foreign policy or reflecting on more esoteric topics such as baseball, spaceflight and medical ethics, Charles Krauthammer elevated the opinion column to a form of art.
 
This collection features the columns, speeches and unpublished writings that showcase the best of his original thought and his last, enduring words on the state of American politics, the nature of liberal democracy and the course of world history. The book also includes a deeply personal section offering insight into Krauthammer’s beliefs about what mattered most to him: friendship, family and the principles he lived by.
 
The Point of It All is a timely demonstration of what made Charles Krauthammer the most celebrated American columnist and political thinker of his generation, a revealing look at the man behind the words and a lasting testament to his belief that anyone with an open and honest mind can grapple deeply with the most urgent questions in politics and in life.
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“Charles will be remembered as one of the greatest public intellects of his generation.”—John McCain
 
In his decades of work as America’s preeminent political commentator, whether writing about statecraft and foreign policy or reflecting on more esoteric topics such as baseball, spaceflight and medical ethics, Charles Krauthammer elevated the opinion column to a form of art.
 
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        A posthumous collection from the noted columnist, building on and bookending Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes, and Politics (2013).As edited by Krauthammer's son Daniel, who provides an engaging, sentimental portrait of his father at work, this collection of (mostly) magazine and newspaper commentaries highlights the columnist's abiding interests: overarchingly politics, if politics sometimes filtered through the arts, sciences, baseball, and the like--all things the author considered "fundamentally subordinate" to the larger realm of politics "because of its capacity, when benign, to allow all around it to flourish, and its capacity, when malign, to make all around it wither." Krauthammer long espoused a kind of classical conservative view that resisted authoritarianism while championing individual freedom. "Freedom is being left alone," he writes. "Freedom is a sphere of autonomy, an inviolable political space that no authority may invade." An early hero was Ronald Reagan, whom he considered a kind of intellectual without intellectual credentials or pretenses and whose particular political genius was to restore the faith of a nation in crisis. (Never mind Iran-Contra.) Later in the collection, Krauthammer champions the notion of "constitutionalism as a political philosophy" along the lines of Antonin Scalia's judicial doctrine of originalism, calling for the least government possible while not hating government as such. It was a stance that, late in his life (Krauthammer died in June 2018), put him at odds with the GOP of Donald Trump, about whom he wrote, "the good news of the early Trump presidency is that America's political institutions, so decried as weak and pliant, have proved a resilient and powerful check on antidemocratic tendencies in the executive." Krauthammer also offers a grudging but ultimately generous endorsement of the Washington Nationals: "I want them to win. Why? I have no idea....I'm actually invested in the day-to-day fortunes of 25 lunkheads I never heard of until two weeks ago."Vintage Krauthammer, containing abundant examples of his often fierce argumentative style and small-c conservative values.

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“Charles will be remembered as one of the greatest public intellects of his generation.”—John McCain
 
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