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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... Soviet intelligence, he defended it as an earnest expression of justifiable popular anxiety. He was quicker than many of his colleagues to credit and welcome the liberal revolutions in Poland and the Soviet Union. The constant internal ...
... Soviet intelligence, he defended it as an earnest expression of justifiable popular anxiety. He was quicker than many of his colleagues to credit and welcome the liberal revolutions in Poland and the Soviet Union. The constant internal ...
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... Soviet Union in 1936 one step ahead of the firing squad, fled Paris just as the Nazis were entering the city, and spent his final years in exile in Mexico City. Serge and Macdonald maintained a constant and intimate correspondence from ...
... Soviet Union in 1936 one step ahead of the firing squad, fled Paris just as the Nazis were entering the city, and spent his final years in exile in Mexico City. Serge and Macdonald maintained a constant and intimate correspondence from ...
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... Soviet poet. When he booked the Byrds, the well known Los Angeles folk-rock group, he combined them with a production of LeRoi Jones's play The Dutchman. Lenny Bruce made one of his last public appearances at the Fillmore on June 24 and ...
... Soviet poet. When he booked the Byrds, the well known Los Angeles folk-rock group, he combined them with a production of LeRoi Jones's play The Dutchman. Lenny Bruce made one of his last public appearances at the Fillmore on June 24 and ...
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... , but isn't this an excellent description of China? And, minus the chaos, of the Soviet Union? Is this really the kind of society we want in our country? In its report on the December 27–30 Weatherman conference in Flint,
... , but isn't this an excellent description of China? And, minus the chaos, of the Soviet Union? Is this really the kind of society we want in our country? In its report on the December 27–30 Weatherman conference in Flint,
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