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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... believe that God ordered Tribe X to abjure pork, or that he caused Leader Y to be born to a virgin, why is it suddenly un-American to doubt that the prime mover of this unimaginably vast universe of quintillions of solar systems would ...
... believe that God ordered Tribe X to abjure pork, or that he caused Leader Y to be born to a virgin, why is it suddenly un-American to doubt that the prime mover of this unimaginably vast universe of quintillions of solar systems would ...
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... believe that too. (In fact, it's a central tenet of my ideology.) I've learned here that I can be friends, good friends, with people who have serious politics of which I deeply disapprove. This is something I wouldn't have thought ...
... believe that too. (In fact, it's a central tenet of my ideology.) I've learned here that I can be friends, good friends, with people who have serious politics of which I deeply disapprove. This is something I wouldn't have thought ...
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... believe in it.) I feel like a heel for bringing this up, but all of the countries in the world which are governed by Communist parties have a controlled press, have no freedom of assembly, have pervasive secret police forces, and have ...
... believe in it.) I feel like a heel for bringing this up, but all of the countries in the world which are governed by Communist parties have a controlled press, have no freedom of assembly, have pervasive secret police forces, and have ...
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... believe us. They said we must have got the pencils at a souvenir store.) My next presidential encounter was in the summer of 1966, when, as a boy reporter for Newsweek, I spent a few days following Ronald Reagan, the actor, around ...
... believe us. They said we must have got the pencils at a souvenir store.) My next presidential encounter was in the summer of 1966, when, as a boy reporter for Newsweek, I spent a few days following Ronald Reagan, the actor, around ...
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... say of Jimmy Carter, as Orwell said of Gandhi, “how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind!” —Prepared for Character Above All, a PBS series on modern presidents, May 31, 1995 THE CHILD MONARCH I. HARD TO BELIEVE: Only a couple.
... say of Jimmy Carter, as Orwell said of Gandhi, “how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind!” —Prepared for Character Above All, a PBS series on modern presidents, May 31, 1995 THE CHILD MONARCH I. HARD TO BELIEVE: Only a couple.
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