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 |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 5 de 71.
Pàgina
... terms. When their lapel buttons are remotely political, they tend to relate political issues to personal ones, as in the slogans “Make Love Not War,” and “Keep California Green—Legalize Grass.” More often, though, their buttons say ...
... terms. When their lapel buttons are remotely political, they tend to relate political issues to personal ones, as in the slogans “Make Love Not War,” and “Keep California Green—Legalize Grass.” More often, though, their buttons say ...
Pàgina
... Terms like “fascism,” “genocide,” stripped of meaning. (When and if real fascism comes to this country, it seems we will have no words left to describe it.) The United States is a mess, but it is not, at this moment, a genocidal fascist ...
... Terms like “fascism,” “genocide,” stripped of meaning. (When and if real fascism comes to this country, it seems we will have no words left to describe it.) The United States is a mess, but it is not, at this moment, a genocidal fascist ...
Pàgina
... terms of its political effect. There is no profit in indulging in political body counts. 5. Finally, there is the question of whether Marxism-Leninism is a worldview to which one wants to lend any support at all. This is a question ...
... terms of its political effect. There is no profit in indulging in political body counts. 5. Finally, there is the question of whether Marxism-Leninism is a worldview to which one wants to lend any support at all. This is a question ...
Pàgina
... moral success. It wasn't cowardice that finally impelled us to quit. It was conscience. THE OLD ARGUMENTS for the war still walk among us, zombielike, in the form of the theory of the Vietnam syndrome, a term calculated to make.
... moral success. It wasn't cowardice that finally impelled us to quit. It was conscience. THE OLD ARGUMENTS for the war still walk among us, zombielike, in the form of the theory of the Vietnam syndrome, a term calculated to make.
Pàgina
... term calculated to make the American people's desire to avoid another Vietnam sound pathological rather than prudent. Of course, if the war did result in a syndrome, if it did result in a paralysis of American will and so forth, that is ...
... term calculated to make the American people's desire to avoid another Vietnam sound pathological rather than prudent. Of course, if the war did result in a syndrome, if it did result in a paralysis of American will and so forth, that is ...
Continguts
SCALING MT KENNEDY | |
SPEECHIFYIN | |
WASCALLY WOSS | |
TWO SPEECHES | |
STARSPANGLED BANTER | |
THE WORD FROM | |
JUDEOCHRISTIANS | |
THE CHILD MONARCH | |
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
actually American asked become beginning believe better Bill Bush called campaign candidate Carter Clinton Congress conservative Constitution convention course Court Democratic Dukakis election fact feel force friends George give Gore half hand happened hard House human hundred idea important interest issue it’s John Kennedy kind later less liberal live look majority means million moral never once party percent perhaps person political politicians Post president problem question Reagan reason represented Republic Republican running seems Senate side sound Soviet speech story sure talk term thing thought thousand told turned Union United Vietnam vote Washington week White writes York young yuppie