George Frederick Will (lahir 4 Mei 1941) adalah seorang pengarang dan komentator politik libertarian-konservatif. Ia giat mengisi kolom untuk The Washington Post dan memberikan komentar untuk NBC News dan MSNBC.[1] Pada 1986, The Wall Street Journal menyebutnya "wartawan paling berpengaruh di Amerika," setara dengan Walter Lippmann (1889–1974).[2][3] Ia memenangkan Pulitzer Prize for Commentary pada 1977.[4]

George Will
Will pada 2014
LahirGeorge Frederick Will
4 Mei 1941 (umur 82)
Champaign, Illinois, Amerika Serikat
PendidikanTrinity College (BA)
Magdalen College, Oxford (MA)
Princeton University (MA, PhD)
Tempat kerjaNewsweek
The Washington Post
Partai politikPartai Republik (sebelum 2016)
Independen (2016–kini)
Suami/istri
Madeleine Will
(bercerai 1989)

(m. 1991)
Anak4

Karya sunting

  • The Pursuit of Happiness and Other Sobering Thoughts. Harper & Row, 1978.
  • The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions. Simon & Schuster, 1982.
  • Statecraft as Soulcraft: What Government Does. Simon & Schuster, 1983.
  • The Morning After: American Success and Excesses, 1981–1986. Free Press, 1986.
  • The New Season: A Spectator's Guide to the 1988 Election. Simon & Schuster, 1987.
  • Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball. Macmillan, 1990.
  • Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home. Free Press, 1990.
  • Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy. 1992.
  • The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture and Other News, 1990–1994. Viking, 1994.
  • The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric: 1994–1997. Scribner, 1997.
  • Bunts: Pete Rose, Curt Flood, Camden Yards and Other Reflections on Baseball. Simon and Schuster, 1997.
  • With a Happy Eye But...: America and the World, 1997–2002. Free Press, 2002.
  • One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation. Crown Publishing Group, 2008.
  • A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred. Crown Archetype, 2014.
  • The Conservative Sensibility. Hachette Books, 2019.
  • American Happiness and Discontents. Hachette Books, 2021.

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  1. ^ Gold, Hadas (May 8, 2017). "On Media: George Will Joins MSNBC." Diarsipkan 2019-03-27 di Wayback Machine. Politico.com. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
  2. ^ D'Evelyn, Thomas (October 26, 1986). "Will's collection of columns chronicles his conservatism". The Christian Science Monitor. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2021-06-04. Diakses tanggal July 30, 2012. 
  3. ^ Quoted in Eric Alterman, Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (1999) pp. 87–88.
  4. ^ "George F. Will of The Washington Post Writers Group". www.pulitzer.org. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2021-01-27. Diakses tanggal 2021-10-21. 

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