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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... feel the need to offer such a tortured explanation for calling a book about politics Politics. Certainly it's not just to argue that because Macdonald borrowed from Serge, it's O.K. for me to borrow from Macdonald. It's more that there ...
... feel the need to offer such a tortured explanation for calling a book about politics Politics. Certainly it's not just to argue that because Macdonald borrowed from Serge, it's O.K. for me to borrow from Macdonald. It's more that there ...
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... feel any obligation to read it the way you might read an “in cold blood” sort of book, beginning at the beginning and marching straight through to the end. (Unless you really want to, of course, in which case be my guest.) This is a ...
... feel any obligation to read it the way you might read an “in cold blood” sort of book, beginning at the beginning and marching straight through to the end. (Unless you really want to, of course, in which case be my guest.) This is a ...
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... 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 political judgment ...
... 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 political judgment ...
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... feels colors and sounds more vividly. On LSD, his ego dissolves and is replaced by an abiding love and appreciation for all people and things. He becomes more existential than the existentialists, because his total immersion in the ...
... feels colors and sounds more vividly. On LSD, his ego dissolves and is replaced by an abiding love and appreciation for all people and things. He becomes more existential than the existentialists, because his total immersion in the ...
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... feel that he is intruding. “We don't want you to freak out,” Bill Graham says. “We want you to melt. A lot of people ... feels like a nap, he can find a quiet patch of floor off in a corner somewhere and go to sleep. No one will mind ...
... feel that he is intruding. “We don't want you to freak out,” Bill Graham says. “We want you to melt. A lot of people ... feels like a nap, he can find a quiet patch of floor off in a corner somewhere and go to sleep. No one will mind ...
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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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