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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... give the other night, but people have had to give tougher ones over the years. In 1633, a prominent, well-connected member of the high-tech community of Florence found himself on the wrong end of a decision by the then equivalent of the ...
... give the other night, but people have had to give tougher ones over the years. In 1633, a prominent, well-connected member of the high-tech community of Florence found himself on the wrong end of a decision by the then equivalent of the ...
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... gives it a modicum of coherence. But the scheme is necessarily somewhat arbitrary. For your purposes, whatever they are, your scheme is as good as mine— probably better. So please feel free to pick, choose, skip, and jump around. A few ...
... gives it a modicum of coherence. But the scheme is necessarily somewhat arbitrary. For your purposes, whatever they are, your scheme is as good as mine— probably better. So please feel free to pick, choose, skip, and jump around. A few ...
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... gives away 2,736 apples and 2,160 lollipops every weekend. “If a guy walks in here worried about what kind of nutty scene he's getting himself into and the first thing that happens to him is somebody gives him an apple,” says Graham ...
... gives away 2,736 apples and 2,160 lollipops every weekend. “If a guy walks in here worried about what kind of nutty scene he's getting himself into and the first thing that happens to him is somebody gives him an apple,” says Graham ...
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... give a damn about the dollar, I'd be lying,” he says. “But the dollar is second to the result. I have my orgasm at one in the morning when I go up to the balcony and see everybody having a good time.” A lot of people dislike Graham for ...
... give a damn about the dollar, I'd be lying,” he says. “But the dollar is second to the result. I have my orgasm at one in the morning when I go up to the balcony and see everybody having a good time.” A lot of people dislike Graham for ...
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... gives away three thousand posters a week to his patrons at the Fillmore, but even that fails to satisfy the demand. One day last summer Graham put up a hundred and fifty posters along Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue and then stopped at the ...
... gives away three thousand posters a week to his patrons at the Fillmore, but even that fails to satisfy the demand. One day last summer Graham put up a hundred and fifty posters along Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue and then stopped at the ...
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