Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004Penguin, 2005 M06 28 - 720 páginas 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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... course, he was writing like mad during those years, but the results have already been collected—by the U.S. ... course, the Farewell Address (January 14, 1981). These speeches, of course, are not exactly “by” Hertzberg. Though his ...
... course, he was writing like mad during those years, but the results have already been collected—by the U.S. ... course, the Farewell Address (January 14, 1981). These speeches, of course, are not exactly “by” Hertzberg. Though his ...
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... ” sort of book, beginning at the beginning and marching straight through to the end. (Unless you really want to, of course, in which case be my guest.) This is a collection of magazine articles, not a syllogism or a slide show. It.
... ” sort of book, beginning at the beginning and marching straight through to the end. (Unless you really want to, of course, in which case be my guest.) This is a collection of magazine articles, not a syllogism or a slide show. It.
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... course, the notion that problems such as black misery and Vietnam-type wars can be truly solved through “policy changes” is an illusion; what is required is a radical restructuring of the entire society. Yet even from this perspective ...
... course, the notion that problems such as black misery and Vietnam-type wars can be truly solved through “policy changes” is an illusion; what is required is a radical restructuring of the entire society. Yet even from this perspective ...
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... course no American wanted to kill everybody in North Vietnam. Americans are not monsters. But Americans are not losers, either. Americans are winners. But the logic of winning in Vietnam was inescapably the logic of genocide. We did not ...
... course no American wanted to kill everybody in North Vietnam. Americans are not monsters. But Americans are not losers, either. Americans are winners. But the logic of winning in Vietnam was inescapably the logic of genocide. We did not ...
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... course, if the war did result in a syndrome, if it did result in a paralysis of American will and so forth, that is hardly an argument that the war was a good idea. Nor do the follies of parts of the antiwar movement somehow vindicate ...
... course, if the war did result in a syndrome, if it did result in a paralysis of American will and so forth, that is hardly an argument that the war was a good idea. Nor do the follies of parts of the antiwar movement somehow vindicate ...
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SCALING MT KENNEDY | |
SPEECHIFYIN | |
WASCALLY WOSS | |
TWO SPEECHES | |
STARSPANGLED BANTER | |
THE WORD FROM | |
JUDEOCHRISTIANS | |
THE CHILD MONARCH | |
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