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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... its swingy fearlessness, its sly patriotism, or the sheer syntactical gymnastics of its final flourish. The writing is so happy-making, it almost reconciles one to the comic, cosmic smallness of our species and the bleakness of its fate ...
... its swingy fearlessness, its sly patriotism, or the sheer syntactical gymnastics of its final flourish. The writing is so happy-making, it almost reconciles one to the comic, cosmic smallness of our species and the bleakness of its fate ...
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... 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 is a whole political and journalistic tradition here (in Serge as well as Macdonald) that has.
... 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 is a whole political and journalistic tradition here (in Serge as well as Macdonald) that has.
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... its most recent (and perhaps only) gig at the annual picnic of the People's World, the West Coast Communist weekly. The ... It's rock dancemusic, so the beat is always firmly there: a very basic thump thump thump underpinning the whole ...
... its most recent (and perhaps only) gig at the annual picnic of the People's World, the West Coast Communist weekly. The ... It's rock dancemusic, so the beat is always firmly there: a very basic thump thump thump underpinning the whole ...
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... Its group vocalizings use folk-style harmony and have a lyricism generally lacking in the San Francisco sound. The Airplane was organized two years ago by its lead singer, Marty Balin ... It's quiet here,” says Jack Casady, twenty-two,
... Its group vocalizings use folk-style harmony and have a lyricism generally lacking in the San Francisco sound. The Airplane was organized two years ago by its lead singer, Marty Balin ... It's quiet here,” says Jack Casady, twenty-two,
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... its own New Left Notes. (One is reminded of Liberia, where the governing party is called the True Whig Party and the opposition party is called the Independent True Whig Party.) Yet, far more than either of its rivals, Weatherman has ...
... its own New Left Notes. (One is reminded of Liberia, where the governing party is called the True Whig Party and the opposition party is called the Independent True Whig Party.) Yet, far more than either of its rivals, Weatherman has ...
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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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