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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... 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 possible before. One of the ...
... 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 possible before. One of the ...
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... fact, but I'm pretty sure Macdonald pinched that title from Victor Serge, whose great book Memoires d'un revolutionnaire had been published in Paris in 1951. An English translation, Memoirs of a Revolutionary, didn't appear until 1963 ...
... fact, but I'm pretty sure Macdonald pinched that title from Victor Serge, whose great book Memoires d'un revolutionnaire had been published in Paris in 1951. An English translation, Memoirs of a Revolutionary, didn't appear until 1963 ...
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... fact he found the name one day when he was leafing through the Oxford Unabridged Dictionary. It refers to a family of medieval ballads. Since adopting the name, the Dead claim to have found a reference to it in the Egyptian Book of the ...
... fact he found the name one day when he was leafing through the Oxford Unabridged Dictionary. It refers to a family of medieval ballads. Since adopting the name, the Dead claim to have found a reference to it in the Egyptian Book of the ...
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... fact a political group at all. A political group, generally speaking, is one which seeks to change (or preserve) social conditions by gaining access to political power, or by causing those who possess power to act in such a way as to ...
... fact a political group at all. A political group, generally speaking, is one which seeks to change (or preserve) social conditions by gaining access to political power, or by causing those who possess power to act in such a way as to ...
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... fact is that our system is open.” This is a distinction which the movement increasingly fails to make. Contempt for American democracy has mutated into contempt for democratic—“bourgeois democratic”—procedures generally. Weatherman kept ...
... fact is that our system is open.” This is a distinction which the movement increasingly fails to make. Contempt for American democracy has mutated into contempt for democratic—“bourgeois democratic”—procedures generally. Weatherman kept ...
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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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