Not Forgotten

Moving and delightful, the reminiscences in Not Forgotten prove once more that George Weigel has not only a mind of the very first order, but the heart to match. -- Mary Eberstadt, Author, Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics These sketches--most of them brief and, by turns, elegiac, celebratory, or bemused--serve as a kind of catalogue of recent intellectual history, Catholic and otherwise, in America and elsewhere. It's a book for dipping into, assuming you can put it down. -- Andrew Ferguson, Contributing writer, TheAtlantic; Author, Land of Lincoln 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. Weigel's miniatures--insightful and compassionate, celebratory and cautionary--are vivid reminders that we do indeed live among a cloud of witnesses. -- Mary Ann Glendon, Professor of Law Emerita, Harvard University In these lively portraits of friends and mentors, George Weigel bestows on them--and his readers--a garland of gratitude for gifts of comradeship freely given and received. -- Kenneth L. Woodward, former Religion Editor of Newsweek and writer-in-residence at the Lumen Christi Institute at the University of Chicago What a cast of characters! And what a feast, presided over by George Weigel's wide-ranging, civilized intelligence and his astonishing talent for friendship. The book is a pure delight. -- Lance Morrow, Author, God and Mammon: Chronicles of American Money In these deft summations of lives to remember, George Weigel displays his distinctive blend of philosophic sophistication and humane sympathy. 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. -- George F. Will, Author, The Conservative Sensibility