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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... Soviet expansionism, for example, had become an embarrassment well before Nixon arrived in Peking. So had the notion that the war was needed to convince the Chinese to abandon revolution and follow the Soviet example of peaceful ...
... Soviet expansionism, for example, had become an embarrassment well before Nixon arrived in Peking. So had the notion that the war was needed to convince the Chinese to abandon revolution and follow the Soviet example of peaceful ...
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... Soviet Union, the other to Japan and Korea. He and his staff were completely exhausted. Meanwhile, back at home, the country was in an uproar because of gasoline lines triggered by the fall of the Shah in Iran. Carter had hoped to stop ...
... Soviet Union, the other to Japan and Korea. He and his staff were completely exhausted. Meanwhile, back at home, the country was in an uproar because of gasoline lines triggered by the fall of the Shah in Iran. Carter had hoped to stop ...
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... Soviet Union—but also to countries allied with us. This angered a number of dictatorial governments that had traditionally done our bidding in the Cold War and now found themselves upbraided by their patron. It also angered a good many ...
... Soviet Union—but also to countries allied with us. This angered a number of dictatorial governments that had traditionally done our bidding in the Cold War and now found themselves upbraided by their patron. It also angered a good many ...
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... Soviet bloc, which understood only force and strength and could not be swayed by lectures about human rights. This view prided itself on being hard-headed and tough-minded, but it turned out to be less hard-headed and tough-minded than ...
... Soviet bloc, which understood only force and strength and could not be swayed by lectures about human rights. This view prided itself on being hard-headed and tough-minded, but it turned out to be less hard-headed and tough-minded than ...
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