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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... Vietnam. In 1966, he enlisted in the navy, which began a personal drama that he has described with minimal self-dramatics and maximum self-deprecation. The long and short of it, he wrote in 1985, was that he “managed to have it both ...
... Vietnam. In 1966, he enlisted in the navy, which began a personal drama that he has described with minimal self-dramatics and maximum self-deprecation. The long and short of it, he wrote in 1985, was that he “managed to have it both ...
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... Vietnam War ended, did the decade get a stake driven through its heart. The day Kennedy was elected I stood on a school desk and delivered a mock victory speech to my mock-cheering classmates at the Lycée Pierre Fermat, in Toulouse ...
... Vietnam War ended, did the decade get a stake driven through its heart. The day Kennedy was elected I stood on a school desk and delivered a mock victory speech to my mock-cheering classmates at the Lycée Pierre Fermat, in Toulouse ...
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... Vietnam, but few hippies are political activists. They tend to think in moral and personal, not political, terms. When their lapel buttons are remotely political, they tend to relate political issues to personal ones, as in the slogans ...
... Vietnam, but few hippies are political activists. They tend to think in moral and personal, not political, terms. When their lapel buttons are remotely political, they tend to relate political issues to personal ones, as in the slogans ...
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... Vietnam-type wars can be truly solved through “policy changes” is an illusion; what is required is a radical restructuring of the entire society. Yet even from this perspective, it is hard to see in what sense Weatherman is “political ...
... Vietnam-type wars can be truly solved through “policy changes” is an illusion; what is required is a radical restructuring of the entire society. Yet even from this perspective, it is hard to see in what sense Weatherman is “political ...
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... Vietnam as an exception to (“... we deplore . . .”) a generally benevolent U.S. foreign policy (“ . . . we basically agree . . .”), rather than as the logical consequence of America's role in international affairs. The Left has been ...
... Vietnam as an exception to (“... we deplore . . .”) a generally benevolent U.S. foreign policy (“ . . . we basically agree . . .”), rather than as the logical consequence of America's role in international affairs. The Left has been ...
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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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