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Not Forgotten: Elegies for, and Reminiscences of, a Diverse Cast of Characters, Most of Them Admirable Kindle Edition

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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 this collection of reminiscences and elegies, the best-selling author of the definitive biography of Pope Saint John Paul II remembers these men and women from inside the convictions that formed them.

Whether he is sketching the lives of Nobel Prize–winning scientists, major league baseball managers, princes of the Church, television personalities, or history-making political leaders, Weigel tries to understand, and help readers 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 George 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. 

The 60 intriguing lives that he writes about are a wide diversity of unique characters and personalities, including Albert Einstein, William F. Buckley, Flannery O’Connor, Franz Jägerstätter, John Paul II, Jackie Robinson, Charles Krauthammer, Sophie Scholl, Henry Hyde, James Schall, S.J., Dietrich Von Hildebrand, Charles Colson, Fr Richard J. Neuhaus and many more.

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"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

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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.

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George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a Catholic theologian and one of America’s leading public intellectuals. He holds the William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC.

From 1989 through June 1996, Mr. Weigel was president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he led a wide-ranging, ecumenical and inter-religious program of research and publication on foreign and domestic policy issues.

Mr. Weigel is perhaps best known for his widely translated and internationally acclaimed two-volume biography of Pope St. John Paul II: the New York Times bestseller, Witness to Hope (1999), and its sequel, The End and the Beginning (2010). In 2017, Weigel published a memoir of the experiences that led to his work as a papal biographer: Lessons in Hope — My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II.

George Weigel is the author or editor of more than thirty other books, many of which have been translated into other languages. Among the most recent are The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God (2005); Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church (2013); Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches (2013); Letters to a Young Catholic (2015); The Fragility of Order: Catholic Reflections on Turbulent Times (2018); The Next Pope: The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission (2020); and Not Forgotten: Elegies for, and Reminiscences of, a Diverse Cast of Characters, Most of Them Admirable (2021). His essays, op-ed columns, and reviews appear regularly in major opinion journals and newspapers across the United States. A frequent guest on television and radio, he is also Senior Vatican Analyst for NBC News. His weekly column, “The Catholic Difference,” is syndicated to eighty-five newspapers and magazines in seven countries.

Mr. Weigel received a B.A. from St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore and an M.A. from the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto. He is the recipient of nineteen honorary doctorates in fields including divinity, philosophy, law, and social science, and has been awarded the Papal Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, Poland’s Gloria Artis Gold Medal, and Lithuania’s Diplomacy Star.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Heroes and Villains (a few) - Ready to be Remembered and Valued
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2021
We have too few heroes today and too little appreciation for the unique gifts, graces and callings that each human being possesses. Candidates for heroic status too easily become the target of aspersions from cynics and doubters. Drawing upon his long experience as author, journalist and observer of religion and politics, George Weigel brings forth treasure and insights from his deep set of relationships (personal and vicarious). Leaders are unique not only in their generation but across the entire span of human history. We do well to remember the Lord Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. We do well to remember the leaders and unique personalities with whom our generation and recent generations have been blessed.

As the Scripture directs us: "Approve the things (and persons) that are excellent" (Philippians 1:10)
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George Weigel is a public intellectual (which he explains in this book) who is best known for his
biographies of Pope St. John Paul II. This one resembles another Catholic George, Fr. Rutler, who
had one called "Dead People I Knew When They Were Alive". Weigel is quite a socialite and knew
most of these people, but a few were known only from a distance. Weigel's interests in ideas and
people involve a mix of religion, politics, culture, diplomacy, science, literature etc.

This book will give you a sense of Weigel's take on the world. As Paul Ricoeur put it, the person's
own self is developed through the experience of others. Catholics and others who are familiar
with Weigel will find a familiar voice. But if you don't know George, I would recommend beginning
with Cube and the Cathedral. That will give you an idea of how he thinks and whether you identify
with it. As elsewhere, his reflections promote democracy, human rights, diplomacy, and an activist
foreign policy. Weigel is a "neocon" both theologically and politically. Theologically, his views
come out in Ironies of Modern Catholic History. Politically, he explains the deep influence of Norman
Podhoretz, Midge Decter, Irving Kristol, and Gertrude Himmelfarb, who are the deepest inner
circle of the neocons. (Bill Kristol is the son of Irving and Gertrude or Bea Kristol). He doesn't
like applying political labels to theology or ecclesiology, and I get that, but most of the debates
here can be described in those terms. He has a quirky, nerdy sort of intellectual humor, your
mileage may vary.

For most Weigel fans, the connection will be with Catholic matters. And so there are reminiscences of Cardinal Avery Dulles, Cardinal Francis George, Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, Andrew Greeley, Paul Mankowski, James Schall, Michael Novak, and the convert from Lutheranism Richard John Neuhaus, as well as the Lutheran sociologist Peter Berger. Novak and Neuhaus are particularly important for the neocon social thought of the past three or four decades. Foreign leaders include Vaclav Havel, Anwar Sadat and a number of lesser known figures (at least to me) in diplomacy and other affairs. Weigel
remembers the singer Pete Seeger and athletes like Frank Robinson, Jackie Robinson, Earl Weaver, Johnny Unitas (not a full article but in relation to others). In the realm of science there is the legendary Albert Einstein, where Weigel defends his intuition that "God doesn't play dice" that kept him from further developments in quantum physics. In literature there are Tom Wolfe and Flannery O'Connor (who was also a theologian of sorts).

The other great topic is politics, and there are Charles Krauthammer, Pat Moynihan, Sargent
Shriver, Scoop Jackson, Lindy Boggs, Cokie Roberts, Henry Hyde, and of course William F. Buckley.
Weigel is a fairly standard conservative, and notes the importance of the early 90s when the UN
was going to define abortion as a human right. He is more of a globalist than I am, so this is really
a central topic to him. The Clintons seem to get under his skin more than Obama, where for me
it's the opposite (well, at least for Bill).

The vast majority of these were personal acquaintances, and there are a lot of interesting stories.
For instance, I thought, what can I find out new about Fr. Neuhaus? Well, he likes goofy comedies
too including Talladega Nights and Ricky Bobby. For conservative Catholics, all the usual suspects
have books out, Scott Hahn, Peter Kreeft, Abp. Charles Chaput. I'm sure these are all worthwhile.
Chaput, for instance, had good reflections on nationalism, patriotism and populism that show he
was in tension with Trumpism, but certainly got the anti-elitist aspect. But I can't read or review them
all. What changed my mind here was the memory of our mutual friend Leonard Klein, such a wonderful mentor for my classmates in the seminary.

Weigel isn't big on the Benedict Option, and vice versa. But surely he and Rod Dreher agree as much as they disagree about our contemporary problems, and should discuss them.
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