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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Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004 Hendrik Hertzberg. Carter's trip and were willing to give him credit. And if Carter had just come home and issued a statement saying he was glad to have been of service to President Clinton and the ...
Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004 Hendrik Hertzberg. Carter's trip and were willing to give him credit. And if Carter had just come home and issued a statement saying he was glad to have been of service to President Clinton and the ...
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... Carter after his trip to Haiti— and, even more vociferously, after his trip to the former Yugoslavia, where he tried, with little short-term success and no long-term results, to persuade the Serbs to halt the shelling of Sarajevo—was ...
... Carter after his trip to Haiti— and, even more vociferously, after his trip to the former Yugoslavia, where he tried, with little short-term success and no long-term results, to persuade the Serbs to halt the shelling of Sarajevo—was ...
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... Carter is no Gandhi (and I'm no Orwell). But the fact that it is not completely unnatural to mention the two of them, Gandhi and Carter, in the same breath is suggestive of something worth exploring. This is not something one would be ...
... Carter is no Gandhi (and I'm no Orwell). But the fact that it is not completely unnatural to mention the two of them, Gandhi and Carter, in the same breath is suggestive of something worth exploring. This is not something one would be ...
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... Carter won the general election partly because the incumbent, Gerald Ford, had been damaged by the Nixon pardon and then by a bruising primary campaign against Ronald Reagan. But in a deeper sense, Carter was nominated and elected on ...
... Carter won the general election partly because the incumbent, Gerald Ford, had been damaged by the Nixon pardon and then by a bruising primary campaign against Ronald Reagan. But in a deeper sense, Carter was nominated and elected on ...
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... Carter to the nomination—the promise not to lie, the assurance that we could govern ourselves through goodness and love—were not quite enough to power a general election campaign. Carter left his convention with a huge lead in the polls ...
... Carter to the nomination—the promise not to lie, the assurance that we could govern ourselves through goodness and love—were not quite enough to power a general election campaign. Carter left his convention with a huge lead in the polls ...
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