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Book excerpt: "A Certain Idea of America" by Peggy Noonan

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Peggy Noonan's new collection of columns from the Wall Street Journal , " A Certain Idea of America ," will be published November 19 .

Noonan writes about the history and character of our nation, the remarkable figures who personify the best of America .

The book is divided into seven parts.

" We Can Handle It" is about working our way, as a nation, through things that roil us.

The collection draws its title from the famous first sentence of Charles de Gaulle's " War Memoirs ," most happily translated as "All my life I have had a certain idea of France " John Sutter : I love America because it's where the miracle is.

When you see this I will have been a weekly columnist in The Wall Street Journal for just shy of a quarter century . I am grateful I haven't run out of opinions. Excerpted from " A Certain Idea of America " by Peggy Noonan , in agreement with Portfolio , an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group , a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright 2024 Peggy Noonan . Get the book here: Buy locally from Bookshop.org For more info:.

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