Long range view of life and works of a man best known, probably, as a columnist, but who wrote much besides, -- light essays, political commentary, humor, poetry, fiction. This is a careful winnowing of his whole output, it includes his own favorites, many familiar and many less familiar pieces, excerpts from his novels, and a good cross section of everything he did. The material is arranged chronologically, which in itself gives insight to the man, the crusader, the commentator. Besides the chronological arrangement, the excerpts are classified by subjects in a subject index.