In Peggy Noonan’s eighth book, Patriotic Grace, the Wall Street Journal columnist and frequent TV pundit talks about the necessity of national unity (and maturity) in today’s turbulent times. TIME talked to Noonan about sequestering Sarah Palin, her infamous “hot mike” incident and which real-life candidate would make the best fictional President.
Why did you decide to write this book now?
All I wanted to say was, Guys, trouble is coming and we’ve got to take serious constructive steps to deal with the moment we’re in. Read More...
Last New Year’s Day, some 250 employes of Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett’s 17 newspapers visited his home at Rochester, N. Y. Along with them was famed Sculptor Gutzon Borglum, who had arrived from South Dakota to do a bust of the boss at the employes’ expense. A parchment scroll attested that the names thereon were “a permanent record of gratitude toward an enlightened employer.* Not to be outdone, Sculptor Borglum said: “… I have been carving in the mountains the portraits of Jefferson, who invented our government; Washington, who made it a fact; Lincoln, probably the dearest soul in our lives, who saved it … and now, Mr. Read More...
Distinguished British actor Tim McMullan is playing the role of detective Atticus Pünd in the PBS Masterpiece, BritBox U.K. and Eleventh Hour Films series adaptation of “Magpie Murders,” Anthony Horowitz’s international bestseller. Read More...