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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... talk - talk - talk . Still : they listen . Alone in a friend's apartment after dinner one evening , I watch the tube for an hour , zapper in hand . Click A costume movie , powdered hair and knee britches . Click A guitar - playing ...
... talk - talk - talk . Still : they listen . Alone in a friend's apartment after dinner one evening , I watch the tube for an hour , zapper in hand . Click A costume movie , powdered hair and knee britches . Click A guitar - playing ...
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... talk radio here is dominated by the hard right . On the AM band , whose low - fidelity signal is perfect for shrill jab- ber , no fewer than four powerful stations feature " conservative talk . " Two of them , WMCA and WWDJ , are ...
... talk radio here is dominated by the hard right . On the AM band , whose low - fidelity signal is perfect for shrill jab- ber , no fewer than four powerful stations feature " conservative talk . " Two of them , WMCA and WWDJ , are ...
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... talk radio , here and elsewhere , was both smaller and more varied . In 1980 , only seventy - five stations in the United States used the all - talk for- mat , and most of them were politically anodyne . Conservative hosts were novelty ...
... talk radio , here and elsewhere , was both smaller and more varied . In 1980 , only seventy - five stations in the United States used the all - talk for- mat , and most of them were politically anodyne . Conservative hosts were novelty ...
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