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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... hundred and fifty posters along Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue and then stopped at the Forum for a cup of coffee. By the time he got up to go back to his car, only three of them were left. , NONE OF THESE THINGS however—the lights, the ...
... hundred and fifty posters along Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue and then stopped at the Forum for a cup of coffee. By the time he got up to go back to his car, only three of them were left. , NONE OF THESE THINGS however—the lights, the ...
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... hundred decibels and sometimes ventures as high as a hundred and ten, only ten decibels under the pain level. In this situation the electronic equipment becomes part of the machinery of music, not simply a way of making it audible to ...
... hundred decibels and sometimes ventures as high as a hundred and ten, only ten decibels under the pain level. In this situation the electronic equipment becomes part of the machinery of music, not simply a way of making it audible to ...
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... hundred people in the room and the few street kids or gang members who might run with them—surviving the holocaust.” LNS reports that Weatherman “digs” Charles Manson, and quotes Bernadine Dohrn as saying, “Dig it, first they killed ...
... hundred people in the room and the few street kids or gang members who might run with them—surviving the holocaust.” LNS reports that Weatherman “digs” Charles Manson, and quotes Bernadine Dohrn as saying, “Dig it, first they killed ...
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... hundred villages” is a defensible proposition. But “we had to destroy this village in order to save it” is a moral absurdity. When the domino theory fell, so, dominolike, did one of the moral props of the war. We are left, then, with ...
... hundred villages” is a defensible proposition. But “we had to destroy this village in order to save it” is a moral absurdity. When the domino theory fell, so, dominolike, did one of the moral props of the war. We are left, then, with ...
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... hundreds of his former enemies, has a similar assessment. Writing in the April Atlantic, he concludes, “Whatever the price of winning the war—twenty more years of fighting, another million dead, the destruction of Hanoi—the North ...
... hundreds of his former enemies, has a similar assessment. Writing in the April Atlantic, he concludes, “Whatever the price of winning the war—twenty more years of fighting, another million dead, the destruction of Hanoi—the North ...
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