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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... later identify as the Hertzberg effect —a twinned zing of provocation and pleasure. The year was 1985, and William Bennett was the Reagan administration's secretary of education and grand inquisitor. (This was long before his Elmer ...
... later identify as the Hertzberg effect —a twinned zing of provocation and pleasure. The year was 1985, and William Bennett was the Reagan administration's secretary of education and grand inquisitor. (This was long before his Elmer ...
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... later, I still don't know what to admire most about that passage—its swingy fearlessness, its sly patriotism, or the sheer syntactical gymnastics of its final flourish. The writing is so happy-making, it almost reconciles one to the ...
... later, I still don't know what to admire most about that passage—its swingy fearlessness, its sly patriotism, or the sheer syntactical gymnastics of its final flourish. The writing is so happy-making, it almost reconciles one to the ...
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... later. Of course, he was writing like mad during those years, but the results have already been collected—by the U.S. Government Printing Office. Of particular note, for those who care to dig out the nine musty volumes of “Public Papers ...
... later. Of course, he was writing like mad during those years, but the results have already been collected—by the U.S. Government Printing Office. Of particular note, for those who care to dig out the nine musty volumes of “Public Papers ...
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... later. The new president's first act was an act of cruelty.” He cut off all financial assistance to International Planned Parenthood and other organizations that provide maternal health services in the most wretched corners of the earth ...
... later. The new president's first act was an act of cruelty.” He cut off all financial assistance to International Planned Parenthood and other organizations that provide maternal health services in the most wretched corners of the earth ...
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... later I read it and was electrified by it. It made me see just how good—how vigorous, how funny, how exhilarating—an engaged, indignant political polemic could be; and it confirmed what I had been taught at home: that the most trenchant ...
... later I read it and was electrified by it. It made me see just how good—how vigorous, how funny, how exhilarating—an engaged, indignant political polemic could be; and it confirmed what I had been taught at home: that the most trenchant ...
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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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