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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... its effect on the public (increasing the clamor for a tougher police stance) and on the movement (now badly split and forced to waste energy fighting with itself), the Days of Rage action was a huge, unearned windfall for the forces of ...
... its effect on the public (increasing the clamor for a tougher police stance) and on the movement (now badly split and forced to waste energy fighting with itself), the Days of Rage action was a huge, unearned windfall for the forces of ...
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... it's the center of our world,” John said. “It's the first international city, racewise, if you think about it,” Yoko said. “It has more Jews than Tel Aviv.” “And more Irish than Dublin,” John said. “And blacks, and Chinese, and Japanese ...
... it's the center of our world,” John said. “It's the first international city, racewise, if you think about it,” Yoko said. “It has more Jews than Tel Aviv.” “And more Irish than Dublin,” John said. “And blacks, and Chinese, and Japanese ...
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... It's clogging my mind just to think about what amount of gear I have in England. All my books and possessions. Walls full of books I've collected all my life. I have a list this thick of the things I have in Ascot, and I'm going to tick ...
... It's clogging my mind just to think about what amount of gear I have in England. All my books and possessions. Walls full of books I've collected all my life. I have a list this thick of the things I have in Ascot, and I'm going to tick ...
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... It's like the window—only this picture continually changes. You'll see China and the moon, all in ten minutes. You ... it's at,” he said. “But it's more so in New York. It does have sugar on it, and I've got a sweet tooth.” —The New ...
... It's like the window—only this picture continually changes. You'll see China and the moon, all in ten minutes. You ... it's at,” he said. “But it's more so in New York. It does have sugar on it, and I've got a sweet tooth.” —The New ...
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... its South Vietnamese ally as the continuation of two thousand years of resistance to Chinese and later French rule. They were prepared to accept limitless casualties to attain their sacred objective. Ho Chi Minh, their leader, had made ...
... its South Vietnamese ally as the continuation of two thousand years of resistance to Chinese and later French rule. They were prepared to accept limitless casualties to attain their sacred objective. Ho Chi Minh, their leader, had made ...
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