George Weigel is a Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington's Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is the New York Times bestselling author of more than two dozen books, including the two volumes of his internationally acclaimed biography of Saint John Paul II, Witness to Hope and The End and the Beginning. Other works by Weigel include The Fragility of Order, The Next Pope, Evangelical Catholicism, and 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