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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... election, September 11, and George W. Bush. The Bush era began with impressive rhetoric and cynical action, Hertzberg writes, and it has only gotten worse and more radically conservative. The president has ignored his lack of a mandate ...
... election, September 11, and George W. Bush. The Bush era began with impressive rhetoric and cynical action, Hertzberg writes, and it has only gotten worse and more radically conservative. The president has ignored his lack of a mandate ...
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... election, and it was obvious that he fancied himself a future occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But “President Reagan”? Please. The actor was even more right-wing than Barry Goldwater, and look what had just happened to him. Also ...
... election, and it was obvious that he fancied himself a future occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But “President Reagan”? Please. The actor was even more right-wing than Barry Goldwater, and look what had just happened to him. Also ...
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... election partly because the incumbent, Gerald Ford, had been damaged by the Nixon pardon and then by a bruising primary campaign against Ronald Reagan. But in a deeper sense, Carter was nominated and elected on account of a pair of ...
... election partly because the incumbent, Gerald Ford, had been damaged by the Nixon pardon and then by a bruising primary campaign against Ronald Reagan. But in a deeper sense, Carter was nominated and elected on account of a pair of ...
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... election campaign. Carter left his convention with a huge lead in the polls. His lead melted steadily in the brutal furnace of the national arena. If the election had taken place a few days later, he might well have lost. But he won, if ...
... election campaign. Carter left his convention with a huge lead in the polls. His lead melted steadily in the brutal furnace of the national arena. If the election had taken place a few days later, he might well have lost. But he won, if ...
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... election had more to do with moral revulsion at Watergate than with political enthusiasm for large-scale programmatic innovation. (The interest groups never quite admitted this, but they seem to have learned enough from the experience ...
... election had more to do with moral revulsion at Watergate than with political enthusiasm for large-scale programmatic innovation. (The interest groups never quite admitted this, but they seem to have learned enough from the experience ...
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WASCALLY WOSS | |
TWO SPEECHES | |
STARSPANGLED BANTER | |
THE WORD FROM | |
JUDEOCHRISTIANS | |
THE CHILD MONARCH | |
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