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Gone,
But Not ForgottenNew York Times bestselling Catholic
author delivers bracing reflections on lives that illuminate the human condition
NEWS PROVIDED BY
Carmel
Communications
Feb. 16, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16, 2021 /Christian
Newswire/ -- The world is full of interesting people, and it has been George
Weigel's good fortune to have known many such personalities in a variety of
fields: politics, religion, the arts and sciences, journalism, the academy,
entertainment and sports. In NOT FORGOTTEN: ELEGIES FOR, AND REMINISCENCES OF, A
DIVERSE CAST OF CHARACTERS, MOST OF THEM ADMIRABLE (Ignatius Press), Weigel
offers a collection of reminiscences about these fascinating people and reflects
on their lives from inside the convictions that formed them.
Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington's Ethics and Public Policy
Center and a New York Times bestselling author. His twenty-eight books included
the two volumes of his internationally acclaimed biography of Saint John Paul
II, Witness to Hope and The End and the Beginning.
NOT FORGOTTEN is an extensive compilation of impressive individuals from
Weigel's personal circle and those he admired from a distance. The common
thread, as he writes in the preface, is that "each of the people I've
memorialized has something to teach us today about righteous and noble
living ... although a few of them teach those lessons along the old via negativa."
Whether Weigel is sketching the lives of history-making popes like Saint John
Paul II, major league baseball figures like Jackie Robinson, Frank Robinson and
Earl Weaver, fellow writers and media personalities like Cokie Roberts, Charles
Krauthammer and William F. Buckley, Jr., or consequential politicians like Lindy
Boggs, Henry Hyde, Sargent Shriver and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, he helps readers
to understand the deep truths of the human condition illuminated by each of
these not-forgotten lives.
Written with verve, insight and an appreciation for the consequential lives that
have touched his own, NOT FORGOTTEN fills out the autobiographical portrait that
Weigel began painting in Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with Saint John
Paul II, while offering a backstage view of some of the men and women who have
shaped the turbulent history of our times.
"In these deft summations of lives to remember, George Weigel displays his
distinctive blend of philosophic sophistication and humane sympathy," writes
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George F. Will. "His farewells — mostly fond, a
few bracingly acerbic — are an intellectual feast to be nibbled now and then, or
consumed in one sitting. Either way, readers will be nourished."
"Each of these sixty-eight essays is a little masterpiece in the difficult art
of the eulogy; together they are a mosaic of the joys and sorrows of our times,"
said Mary Ann Glendon, professor of Law Emerita at Harvard University. "Weigel's
miniatures — insightful and compassionate, celebratory and cautionary — are
vivid reminders that we do indeed live among a cloud of witnesses."
For more information, to request a media review copy or to schedule an interview
with George Weigel, please contact Kevin Wandra (404-788-1276 or
KWandra@CarmelCommunications.com) of Carmel Communications.
SOURCE Carmel Communications
CONTACT: Kevin Wandra, 404-788-1276,
KWandra@CarmelCommunications.com