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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... millions in family milk money in the gambling dens of Las Vegas and Atlantic City.) In a tone of highest dudgeon, Bennett had complained that the people who really ruled the country—the liberals, the judges, the whatever—had ...
... millions in family milk money in the gambling dens of Las Vegas and Atlantic City.) In a tone of highest dudgeon, Bennett had complained that the people who really ruled the country—the liberals, the judges, the whatever—had ...
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... millions of more or less identical galaxies? Two decades later, I still don't know what to admire most about that passage—its swingy fearlessness, its sly patriotism, or the sheer syntactical gymnastics of its final flourish. The ...
... millions of more or less identical galaxies? Two decades later, I still don't know what to admire most about that passage—its swingy fearlessness, its sly patriotism, or the sheer syntactical gymnastics of its final flourish. The ...
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... Millions of young men and women began to think of themselves as radical or, at least, as radically at odds with their government and its war in Vietnam. At the same time, for the young, politics was becoming increasingly bound up with a ...
... Millions of young men and women began to think of themselves as radical or, at least, as radically at odds with their government and its war in Vietnam. At the same time, for the young, politics was becoming increasingly bound up with a ...
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... million dollars manufacturing and selling tiny, eggshell-blue capsules of LSD. Indeed, the name “Grateful Dead” is sometimes interpreted as a reference to the death of the ego under LSD. The Dead do not object to this interpretation ...
... million dollars manufacturing and selling tiny, eggshell-blue capsules of LSD. Indeed, the name “Grateful Dead” is sometimes interpreted as a reference to the death of the ego under LSD. The Dead do not object to this interpretation ...
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... million people of white America there might be the potential for an effective radical movement. To be thus freed from the responsibility of thought is an exhilarating experience. It is pleasant to ride the tide of “history” without ...
... million people of white America there might be the potential for an effective radical movement. To be thus freed from the responsibility of thought is an exhilarating experience. It is pleasant to ride the tide of “history” without ...
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SCALING MT KENNEDY | |
SPEECHIFYIN | |
WASCALLY WOSS | |
TWO SPEECHES | |
STARSPANGLED BANTER | |
THE WORD FROM | |
JUDEOCHRISTIANS | |
THE CHILD MONARCH | |
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