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    The Washington Post Pulitzers: Kathleen Parker, Commentary
    The Washington Post Pulitzers: Kathleen Parker, Commentary
    The Washington Post Pulitzers: Kathleen Parker, Commentary
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    The Washington Post Pulitzers: Kathleen Parker, Commentary

    By Kathleen Parker and The Washington Post

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    Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.

    Kathleen Parker, former staff writer for the Orlando Sentinel and author of SAVE THE MALES: WHY MEN MATTER, WHY WOMEN SHOULD CARE, informs and astounds readers with her Pulitzer Prize-winning columns for The Washington Post. No subject too charged or controversial; Parker tackles topics as incendiary as abortion, as charged as race, as current as President Obama, as deceptively whimsical as Twitter.

    Shaped by wisdom, originality, and good, old-fashioned reporting, Kathleen Parker never fails to leave her readers entertained and enlightened.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDiversion Books
    Release dateAug 26, 2014
    ISBN9781626813717
    The Washington Post Pulitzers: Kathleen Parker, Commentary
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    Kathleen Parker

    Kathleen Parker has been riding horses for 30 years and currently runs a small thoroughbred racing stable. She attended Mount Ida College in Newton, MA and obtained an Associate of Science degree in Occupational Therapy. While in New England, Kathleen competed with her intercolliegiate equestrian team. Phantom Hoof Prints is Kathleen’s first novel. Born and raised in Johnstown, PA, she and her husband live in Bethel, PA with an assortment of horses, dogs, and cats.

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      The Washington Post Pulitzers - Kathleen Parker

      The Washington Post Pulitzers: Kathleen Parker, Commentary

      The Washington Post Pulitzers

      Kathleen Parker

      Commentary

      Copyright

      Diversion Books

      A Division of Diversion Publishing Corp.

      443 Park Avenue South, Suite 1008

      New York, NY 10016

      www.DiversionBooks.com

      Copyright © 2014 by The Washington Post

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      For more information, email info@diversionbooks.com

      First Diversion Books edition July 2014

      ISBN: 978-1-62681-371-7

      Letter of Introduction

      January 28, 2010

      To the Judges:

      I write to nominate Kathleen Parker for a Pulitzer Prize in commentary.

      Parker writes two columns per week for the Washington Post and more than 400 other newspapers. They are funny, lively, smart, poignant, perceptive, and–always–readable in the extreme. On Aug. 5, for example, she took as her text some comments from Ohio Sen. George Voinovich, who had said the Republican Party was suffering from a surfeit of Southerners. They get on TV and go, ‘errr, errrrr,’ Voinovich had said. People hear them and say, ‘These people, they’re Southerners. The party’s being taken over by Southerners. What the hell they got to do with Ohio?’

      Parker, who lives in South Carolina, recounted these remarks and then noted dryly, Down South, people are trying to figure out what ‘errrr, errrrr’ means. Then before the reader could quite realize what had happened, Parker launched into a serious and perceptive essay on civil rights, the Republicans’ Southern strategy, the poisoned fruits of racism, the 2008 election and the future of the GOP–all in the length of one column, and all without once losing the reader’s attention. Because for Parker,serious never means ponderous. Every column grabs the reader’s attention–but in a gracious, good-natured way–and doesn’t let go.

      Nor is there any subject too charged for Kathleen. She will take on abortion, race, sex, Obama, Palin, Twitter, Afghanistan–anything that people care about, or that she thinks people ought to care about, in which case they usually will once she has finished. She is a conservative, but one who sets her own course and refuses to buy into conservative talking points; a woman who is willing to infuriate feminists and anti-feminists alike. Her columns are shaped by common sense, experience, old-fashioned reporting and wry appreciation of human frailty. She makes it all look easy, which is the toughest trick of all.

      Parker began writing a

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