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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... GEORGE WITHOUT TEARS WHAT'S UP, DOC? L'AFFAIRE BLAIR RADIO DAZE 9. WEDGE ISSUES BIG BOOBS EXECUTIONS I: BURNING QUESTION EXECUTIONS II: FEDERAL DEATH WOUNDS OF RACE FLAGELLATION GORE'S GREATEST BONG HITS LABOR'S CHINA SYNDROME COPS AND ...
... GEORGE WITHOUT TEARS WHAT'S UP, DOC? L'AFFAIRE BLAIR RADIO DAZE 9. WEDGE ISSUES BIG BOOBS EXECUTIONS I: BURNING QUESTION EXECUTIONS II: FEDERAL DEATH WOUNDS OF RACE FLAGELLATION GORE'S GREATEST BONG HITS LABOR'S CHINA SYNDROME COPS AND ...
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... HIM 13. 2000 + 9/11 FIVE PERCENTER BOTH SIDES NOW THEY'VE GOT PERSONALITY COLLEGE HIGHJINKS ALL PERFECTLY LEGAL EPPUR SIMUOVE ADVICE AND CONSENT GENEROUS GEORGE DEFENSE MECHANISMS TUESDAY, AND AFTER STIMULATION DIFFERENCES RECOUNTED.
... HIM 13. 2000 + 9/11 FIVE PERCENTER BOTH SIDES NOW THEY'VE GOT PERSONALITY COLLEGE HIGHJINKS ALL PERFECTLY LEGAL EPPUR SIMUOVE ADVICE AND CONSENT GENEROUS GEORGE DEFENSE MECHANISMS TUESDAY, AND AFTER STIMULATION DIFFERENCES RECOUNTED.
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Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004 Hendrik Hertzberg. GENEROUS GEORGE DEFENSE MECHANISMS TUESDAY, AND AFTER STIMULATION DIFFERENCES RECOUNTED OUT MINE SHAFT MANIFESTO 2000 AND TWO TOO MUCH INFORMATION BLIXKRIEG ATTACK ANXIETY ...
Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004 Hendrik Hertzberg. GENEROUS GEORGE DEFENSE MECHANISMS TUESDAY, AND AFTER STIMULATION DIFFERENCES RECOUNTED OUT MINE SHAFT MANIFESTO 2000 AND TWO TOO MUCH INFORMATION BLIXKRIEG ATTACK ANXIETY ...
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... George W. S. Trow, and Daniel Chasan, all of whom eventually received similarly welcoming calls from Shawn. “My whole career has been so marked by advantages gained from Harvard's oldboy network,” Hertzberg confessed in 2002, in an ...
... George W. S. Trow, and Daniel Chasan, all of whom eventually received similarly welcoming calls from Shawn. “My whole career has been so marked by advantages gained from Harvard's oldboy network,” Hertzberg confessed in 2002, in an ...
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... George W. Bush. The Bush era began with impressive rhetoric and cynical action, Hertzberg writes, and it has only gotten worse and more radically conservative. The president has ignored his lack of a mandate and jettisoned the idea of a ...
... George W. Bush. The Bush era began with impressive rhetoric and cynical action, Hertzberg writes, and it has only gotten worse and more radically conservative. The president has ignored his lack of a mandate and jettisoned the idea of a ...
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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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