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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... once courteous and ferocious, seductive and caustic, tender and urbane. As an analyst of American public life Hertzberg is logical, humane, and morally acute; as a writer he has tone control the way Billie Holiday had tone control. I ...
... once courteous and ferocious, seductive and caustic, tender and urbane. As an analyst of American public life Hertzberg is logical, humane, and morally acute; as a writer he has tone control the way Billie Holiday had tone control. I ...
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... once I was old enough to be interested in such things I read them, or read in them. A collection of Macdonald's political pieces, mostly from Politics, came out in 1957. A few years later I read it and was electrified by it. It made me ...
... once I was old enough to be interested in such things I read them, or read in them. A collection of Macdonald's political pieces, mostly from Politics, came out in 1957. A few years later I read it and was electrified by it. It made me ...
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... (ONCE INSIDE, NO OUTSY-INSY), posters, and clippings about Lenny Bruce, Jasper Johns, and Pat Boone. What the Fillmore does is to have so much going on that the visitor can vary the intensity and quality of his pleasure. It is next to ...
... (ONCE INSIDE, NO OUTSY-INSY), posters, and clippings about Lenny Bruce, Jasper Johns, and Pat Boone. What the Fillmore does is to have so much going on that the visitor can vary the intensity and quality of his pleasure. It is next to ...
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... once, a wedding at the Fillmore. Between sets one Saturday night, a young man named Lee “Thunder Machine” Quanstrum married his blonde fiancée, “Space Daisy” (many hippies affect comic-book-type nicknames), in a Unitarian (what else ...
... once, a wedding at the Fillmore. Between sets one Saturday night, a young man named Lee “Thunder Machine” Quanstrum married his blonde fiancée, “Space Daisy” (many hippies affect comic-book-type nicknames), in a Unitarian (what else ...
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... once they had one will probably not have to be answered. The life of a full-time street-fighting revolutionary may prove satisfying to an upper-middle-class college dropout in a position to reject the meaningless life of the affluent ...
... once they had one will probably not have to be answered. The life of a full-time street-fighting revolutionary may prove satisfying to an upper-middle-class college dropout in a position to reject the meaningless life of the affluent ...
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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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