Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004Penguin Press, 2004 - 683 pàgines Cause for jubilation: At last, one of America's wisest and most necessary voices has distilled what he knows about politics, broadly speaking, into one magnificent volume. Imagine if the Rolling Stones were just now releasing its first greatest hits album, and you'll have some idea of how long overdue, and highly anticipated, Politicsis. Here are Hendrik Hertzberg's most significant and hilarious and devastating and infuriating dispatches from the American scene-a scene he has chronicled for four decades with an uncanny blend of moral seriousness, high spirits, and perfect rhetorical pitch. Politicsis at once the story of American life from LBJ to GWB and a testament to the power of the written word in the right hands. In those hands, everything seems like politics, and politics has never seemed more interesting. Hertzberg breaks down American politics into component parts-campaigns, debates, rhetoric, the media, wars (cultural, countercultural, and real), high crimes and misdemeanors, the right, and more-and draws the choicest, most telling pieces from his body of work to illuminate each, beginning each section with a new piece of writing framing the subject at hand. Politics 101 from the master, Politicsis also an immensely rich and entertaining mosaic of American life from the mid-1960s to the mid-2000s-a ride through recent American history with one of the most insightful and engaging guides imaginable. |
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... actually need money would be one such way . A payroll - tax holiday would be better still , because the payroll tax is a direct tax on jobs and therefore on job creation . Even better would be for the government to buy things that ...
... actually need money would be one such way . A payroll - tax holiday would be better still , because the payroll tax is a direct tax on jobs and therefore on job creation . Even better would be for the government to buy things that ...
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... actually are watching the whole thing on C - Span , in a spillover audi- torium set aside for the purpose . But the delegates don't even have the min- imal dignity of being able to busy themselves telling people about what they are ...
... actually are watching the whole thing on C - Span , in a spillover audi- torium set aside for the purpose . But the delegates don't even have the min- imal dignity of being able to busy themselves telling people about what they are ...
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... actually agree that there is no chance we are going to get big structural political change in this country . Ten years ago , the idea that Soviet communism might simply disappear was absolutely unthinkable , out of the question . Yet it ...
... actually agree that there is no chance we are going to get big structural political change in this country . Ten years ago , the idea that Soviet communism might simply disappear was absolutely unthinkable , out of the question . Yet it ...
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