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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... better than any mousse-haired, Bible-touting, apartheid-promoting evangelist on any UHF television station you can name, I must protest. Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a ...
... better than any mousse-haired, Bible-touting, apartheid-promoting evangelist on any UHF television station you can name, I must protest. Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a ...
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... better. So please feel free to pick, choose, skip, and jump around. A few selections have been very lightly edited to remove stylistic infelicities that should have been blue-pencilled to begin with. Off-the-mark predictions, lapses in ...
... better. So please feel free to pick, choose, skip, and jump around. A few selections have been very lightly edited to remove stylistic infelicities that should have been blue-pencilled to begin with. Off-the-mark predictions, lapses in ...
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... better when something's natural rather than artificial or chemical or whatever.” The Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, the literally thousands of other groups that are following in their footsteps or branching out on their own, the ...
... better when something's natural rather than artificial or chemical or whatever.” The Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, the literally thousands of other groups that are following in their footsteps or branching out on their own, the ...
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... better have indulged in verbal overkill to the point where language—the basic tool for organizing reality into something that can be understood and acted upon—is no longer descriptive. Terms like “fascism,” “genocide,” stripped of ...
... better have indulged in verbal overkill to the point where language—the basic tool for organizing reality into something that can be understood and acted upon—is no longer descriptive. Terms like “fascism,” “genocide,” stripped of ...
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... better to be poor in New York than rich in Spain or England,” John said. “Exactly, exactly,” Yoko said. “I was an artist cum waitress cum lecturer in New York, and a superintendent also.” “She was the superintendent of the building ...
... better to be poor in New York than rich in Spain or England,” John said. “Exactly, exactly,” Yoko said. “I was an artist cum waitress cum lecturer in New York, and a superintendent also.” “She was the superintendent of the building ...
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