How is the American spirit holding up in these difficult times?
Peter Funt, syndicated columnist and host of TV's "Candid Camera,"
looks beyond the headlines to find out. In six-dozen essays, Funt
uses a light but penetrating touch to take the nation's
temperature. "I've always been fascinated by small slices of life,"
he writes. "During my time in broadcast and print journalism, as
well as in entertainment television, I've looked for the smaller
items that, when taken together, create a bigger picture of who we
are and where we're headed." Funt's columns appear regularly in The
Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and many of his op-eds
formed the basis for these essays. Funt's canvas is very much like
the real world we deal with every day. Sure, Americans are
concerned about taxes, education and crime. But we also care about
mobile apps that talk back to us, Paul McCartney's hairdo, and
raccoons that destroy our lawns. "On 'Candid Camera, ' Funt
explains, "we celebrated the American spirit, and in the last five
years of traveling, interviewing and researching, I'm happy to
report that the spirit remains strong. That said, my opinion pieces
often focus on the negative. That's inherent in news and
commentary; we don't dismiss all the good, but we search out those
things that need to be fixed." In "Cautiously Optimistic," Peter
Funt finds the good, the bad and the occasionally hilarious. These
essays are designed to make you think, but also to smile.
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