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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... live rock music. The scope of the rock scene in San Francisco sets it apart from other cities. But there are more important differences. Rock and roll is a field which is subject to an enormous amount of manipulation. A few men—record ...
... live rock music. The scope of the rock scene in San Francisco sets it apart from other cities. But there are more important differences. Rock and roll is a field which is subject to an enormous amount of manipulation. A few men—record ...
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... live in a crummy cold-water flat and stand there while hundreds of doors slam in your face. I just couldn't do that. I thought the talent was there to do some character work, but apparently producers didn't.”* Graham got to San ...
... live in a crummy cold-water flat and stand there while hundreds of doors slam in your face. I just couldn't do that. I thought the talent was there to do some character work, but apparently producers didn't.”* Graham got to San ...
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... live sound, the live excitement, can be recorded,” says Jerry Garcia. “Rather than trying to turn the living room or the car radio into the Fillmore Auditorium, we'll use the resources of the recording studio—overtracking things, using ...
... live sound, the live excitement, can be recorded,” says Jerry Garcia. “Rather than trying to turn the living room or the car radio into the Fillmore Auditorium, we'll use the resources of the recording studio—overtracking things, using ...
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... live the victory of the people's war!” chanted the Weathermen as they charged through Chicago's Gold Coast. The slogan, meaningless on the face of it (how can a victory live long? what people's war?), becomes almost comic when it issues ...
... live the victory of the people's war!” chanted the Weathermen as they charged through Chicago's Gold Coast. The slogan, meaningless on the face of it (how can a victory live long? what people's war?), becomes almost comic when it issues ...
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... live in and a loft in SoHo to work in; they have been observed doing New Yorkish things, such as riding their bicycles in the Park, going to the movies in the middle of the night, and picking up the Sunday papers in Sheridan Square. So ...
... live in and a loft in SoHo to work in; they have been observed doing New Yorkish things, such as riding their bicycles in the Park, going to the movies in the middle of the night, and picking up the Sunday papers in Sheridan Square. So ...
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