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The Time of Our Lives: Collected Writings Audiobook
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The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Commentary and conservative icon Peggy Noonan offers her most insightful work, including her Wall Street Journal columns about the 2016 Election.
New York Times bestseller The Time of Our Lives travels the path of Peggy Noonan's remarkable and influential career, beginning with a revealing essay about her motivations as a writer and thinker. It's followed by an address to students at Harvard University on the drafting of President Reagan's speech the day the space shuttle Challenger exploded. Then comes one surprising chapter after the next including:
"People I Miss" -- memorable salutes to the likes of Tim Russert, Joan Rivers, Margaret Thatcher, and others.
"Making Trouble" -- Peggy's sharpest, funniest and most critical columns about Democrats and Republicans, the idiocracy of government, 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 lay ahead in terms of war and sacrifice.
"The Loneliest President Since Nixon" -- tracking hope and change as it became disillusionment and disappointment with President Obama.
And other sections where Peggy discerns the mood of the country ("State of 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, The Time of Our Lives articulates Peggy's conservative vision, demonstrating why she has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, journalism's highest honor.
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“The narration of the book is a team effort. Noonan reads the introduction and does a credible job setting the book’s tone. The rest of the chapters alternate between the bright, sunny voice of Betsy Foldes Meiman and the smokier, more atmospheric-sounding Rena Marie Villano. Both do a terrific job of interpreting Noonan’s words, and each makes valuable contributions to the book’s tone and message. The result is a fascinating jaunt through America’s recent past and a set of ideas that will inform its future”
— AudioFile
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“Thoroughly enjoyable and intellectually compelling… Noonan captures her subjects—people and society, moments and eras—with an excellence and durability.”
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"[The Time of Our Lives] is an examination of the soul of a politics and a culture…This book helps, by teaching, encouraging, challenging, chronicling—by giving thanks and raising grave concerns, too, but always laced with hope illuminated by faith.”
— National Review -
“Terrific…It’s just great thinking turned to print.”
— Buffalo News (New York) -
“In this impressive collection of speeches and journalistic commentaries, readers hear the convention-defying voice that has made Noonan a national presence as an exponent of conservatism…A refreshingly spontaneous and engaging collection.”
— Booklist (starred review) -
“Superb…[Noonan’s] insights are acute, sharply stated, and extremely moving…[A] powerful collection.”
— Publishers Weekly
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A New York Times bestseller
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About Peggy Noonan
Peggy Noonan, author of the bestselling When Character Was King, has contributed articles and essays to Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and many other publications. She is currently a columnist and contributing editor at the Wall Street Journal.
About the Narrators
Jeff Bottoms is known for his work on Grand Theft Auto IV and Iron Man 3: The Official Game. The multi-talented voice of many cable networks now lends his voice to radio imaging. Jeff can be deep, dramatic and intense at one moment and lighthearted, warm and storytellerish the next.
Jeff Bottoms is known for his work on Grand Theft Auto IV and Iron Man 3: The Official Game. The multi-talented voice of many cable networks now lends his voice to radio imaging. Jeff can be deep, dramatic and intense at one moment and lighthearted, warm and storytellerish the next.
Betsy Foldes-Meiman is a voice talent and Earphones Award–winning narrator.