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George F. Will

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May 04, 1941 in Champaign, Illinois, The United States

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http://www.postwritersgroup.com/will.htm

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Nonfiction, Politics, Sports

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George Frederick Will is an American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winner best known for his conservative commentary on politics. By the mid 1980s the Wall Street Journal reported he was "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann (1899–1975).

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Books by George F. Will

Average rating: 3.84 · 1,386 ratings · 106 reviews · 24 distinct works

	Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball 3.90 avg rating — 1,005 ratings — published 1990 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Bunts 3.46 avg rating — 120 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation 3.49 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture, and Other News 3.68 avg rating — 34 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Statecraft as Soulcraft 3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Suddenly 3.68 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Morning After: American Successes and Excesses, 1981-1986 3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy 3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	My rating:
	With a Happy Eye But...: America and the World, 1997-2002 3.80 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric 3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	My rating:

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“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.”
― George F. Will

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“Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.”
― George F. Will

tags: football , humor

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“In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.”
― George F. Will

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