Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004Penguin, 28 de juny 2005 - 720 pàgines Cause for jubilation: One of America’s wisest and most necessary voices has distilled what he knows about politics, broadly speaking, into one magnificent volume. Here at last are Henrik Hertzberg’s most significant, hilarious, and devastating dispatches from the American scene he has chronicled for four decades with an uncanny blend of moral seriousness, high spirits, and perfect rhetorical pitch. Politics is 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, politics encompasses everyone from Jerry Garcia to Rush Limbaugh, every place from New Hampshire to Nicaragua, and everything from Playboy vs. Penthouse to Bush vs. Gore. Hendrik Hertzberg breaks down American politics into its component parts—campaigns, debates, rhetoric, the media, wars (cultural, countercultural, and real), high crimes and misdemeanors, the right, and more. Each section begins with a new piece of writing framing the subject at hand and contains the choicest, most illuminating pieces from his body of work. Politics is a tour of the defining moments of American life from the mid-’60s till the mid-’00s, a ride though recent American history with one of the most insightful and engaging guides imaginable, a writer who consistently makes us see more clearly and feel more deeply. “Politics is invaluable for all sorts of reasons—chief among them being decades of elegant writing in the service of surgical intelligence.”—Toni Morrison |
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... American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian? When did it become un-American to have opinions about the origin and meaning of the universe that come from sources other than the body of dogma of organizations approved by the federal ...
... American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian? When did it become un-American to have opinions about the origin and meaning of the universe that come from sources other than the body of dogma of organizations approved by the federal ...
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... American mainstream. In Macdonald's conception of politics, what counted were the ideas, the ethics, the values—even the aesthetics. He seldom lingered over such trivialities as Democrats, Republicans, and elections. I'm more interested ...
... American mainstream. In Macdonald's conception of politics, what counted were the ideas, the ethics, the values—even the aesthetics. He seldom lingered over such trivialities as Democrats, Republicans, and elections. I'm more interested ...
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... American sound, and the San Francisco scene the American scene, it will be more than just another musical fad. It will mean that the new way of life that is developing in this city is becoming, in some sense, the way of life of the ...
... American sound, and the San Francisco scene the American scene, it will be more than just another musical fad. It will mean that the new way of life that is developing in this city is becoming, in some sense, the way of life of the ...
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... American society. They have, rhetorically at least, committed themselves to Marxism-Leninism; but they have lost the sense of history which is ... American society is coming from outside American society, there is no need to understand.
... American society. They have, rhetorically at least, committed themselves to Marxism-Leninism; but they have lost the sense of history which is ... American society is coming from outside American society, there is no need to understand.
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... American political climate or on the developing American radical movement. No need to inquire into the possibility that within the 180 million people of white America there might be the potential for an effective radical movement. To be ...
... American political climate or on the developing American radical movement. No need to inquire into the possibility that within the 180 million people of white America there might be the potential for an effective radical movement. To be ...
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WHY THE WAR WAS IMMORAL | |
YOU HAD TO BE THERE | |
A MORAL IDEOLOGUE | |
SCALING MT KENNEDY | |
SPEECHIFYIN | |
WASCALLY WOSS | |
TWO SPEECHES | |
STARSPANGLED BANTER | |
THE WORD FROM | |
JUDEOCHRISTIANS | |
THE CHILD MONARCH | |
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