DOC Foxfire 3: Animal Care; Banjos and Dulcimers; Hide Tanning; Summer and Fall Wild Plant Foods; Butter Churns; Ginseng; and Still More Affairs of Plain Living by From Wigginton; Eliot (EDT)/ Wiggington; Eliot (EDT) in History

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From America’s preeminent columnist; named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation; the long-awaited collection of Charles Krauthammer’s essential; timeless writings. A brilliant stylist known for an uncompromising honesty that challenges conventional wisdom at every turn; Krauthammer has for decades daz­zled readers with his keen insight into politics and government. His weekly column is a must-read in Washington and across the country. Now; finally; the best of Krauthammer’s intelligence; erudition and wit are collected in one volume. Readers will find here not only the country’s leading conservative thinker offering a pas­sionate defense of limited government; but also a highly independent mind whose views—on feminism; evolution and the death penalty; for example—defy ideological convention. Things That Matter also features several of Krautham­mer’s major path-breaking essays—on bioeth­ics; on Jewish destiny and on America’s role as the world’s superpower—that have pro­foundly influenced the nation’s thoughts and policies. And finally; the collection presents a trove of always penetrating; often bemused re­flections on everything from border collies to Halley’s Comet; from Woody Allen to Win­ston Churchill; from the punishing pleasures of speed chess to the elegance of the perfectly thrown outfield assist. With a special; highly autobiographical in­troduction in which Krauthammer reflects on the events that shaped his career and political philosophy; this indispensible chronicle takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the fashions and follies; the tragedies and triumphs; of the last three decades of American life.