Peggy Noonan
Auteur de When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan
A propos de l'auteur
She was a special assistant to President Ronald Reagan from 1984 to 1986; in 1988, she was chief speechwriter to Vice President George Bush during his campaign for the presidency. She is currently a columnist & contributing editor at The Wall Street Journal & a political contributor for Fox News. afficher plus She lives in New York City. (Publisher Provided) Peggy Noonan graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Before entering the Reagan White House, she was a producer and writer at CBS News and an adjunct professor of Journalism at New York University. She was a speechwriter and special assistant to President Ronald Reagan. She is a weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal and an author. Her books include What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era, Character Above All, The Case Against Hillary Clinton, When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan, John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father, Patriotic Grace, and The Time of Our Lives. In 2010, she received the Award for Media Excellence by the living recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Peggy Noonan
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Noonan, Peggy
- Nom légal
- Noonan, Margaret Ellen
- Date de naissance
- 1950-09-07
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
- Études
- Fairleigh Dickinson University (BA|1974)
- Professions
- speechwriter
columnist - Relations
- Rahn, Richard W. (husband|divorced)
- Organisations
- CBS
The Wall Street Journal - Prix et distinctions
- Pulitzer Prize (Commentary, 2017)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 14
- Aussi par
- 8
- Membres
- 2,652
- Popularité
- #9,681
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 31
- ISBN
- 64
- Favoris
- 3
Pope John Paul II was a historical great. He was unusually courageous during the Holocaust in maintaining close friends among Jewish people. As Pope, on behalf of the Vatican he recognized the State of Israel. Noon diluted the greatness of her subject with personal meanderings. Indeed, a few times she said, in the book, "now, let's return to John Paul." Nowhere was there discussion of the sheer bravery in befriending Jews during Holocaust-era Poland, the country with the highest ratio of its Jews murdered. The book did admirably cover the Church's pedophilia scandals. The book also gave a surprisingly good overview of Europe's manic self-immolation in the course of two world wars.
The timing of my reading the Peggy Noonan book was the completion of Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, by James Carroll. Constantine's Sword was a powerful history of the Roman Catholic Church. About the only thing it didn't mention was the pedophilia scandals and the high-living lifestyle of some of the Archbishops and Cardinals. Both of those were discussed by Peggy Noonan, so I have to give the book a "three." I will say I almost put the book down until the chapter on the pedophilia scandals, called "The Great Shame." The drawback of the book is I still feel that I don't know as much about John Paul as I wanted to.… (plus d'informations)