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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... million? Three million? Six million? The shrill accusation of some in the antiwar movement that the war was “genocidal” was not entirely without justice. Of course no American wanted to kill everybody in North Vietnam. Americans are not ...
... million? Three million? Six million? The shrill accusation of some in the antiwar movement that the war was “genocidal” was not entirely without justice. Of course no American wanted to kill everybody in North Vietnam. Americans are not ...
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... million or so people who eventually showed up were drawn by the mere possibility he might sing. Twenty years later ... millions of his fellow citizens the most charismatic creature on earth. His prestige was somewhere between Byron's and ...
... million or so people who eventually showed up were drawn by the mere possibility he might sing. Twenty years later ... millions of his fellow citizens the most charismatic creature on earth. His prestige was somewhere between Byron's and ...
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... millions of Africans. He hasn't just talked about extending democracy, he has put his reputation and sometimes his very life on the line in country after country, often with little or no publicity, to promote free elections and expose ...
... millions of Africans. He hasn't just talked about extending democracy, he has put his reputation and sometimes his very life on the line in country after country, often with little or no publicity, to promote free elections and expose ...
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... millions of people, but when he proved unequal to the task of curing those ills (or even palliating them, as Reagan did), he was reviled with special bitterness. In the cabinet and staff shakeup that followed the speech, Carter got rid ...
... millions of people, but when he proved unequal to the task of curing those ills (or even palliating them, as Reagan did), he was reviled with special bitterness. In the cabinet and staff shakeup that followed the speech, Carter got rid ...
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