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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... perhaps, of the late Murray Kempton: That was a tough concession speech Al Gore had to give the other night, but people have had to give tougher ones over the years. In 1633, a prominent, well-connected member of the high-tech community ...
... perhaps, of the late Murray Kempton: That was a tough concession speech Al Gore had to give the other night, but people have had to give tougher ones over the years. In 1633, a prominent, well-connected member of the high-tech community ...
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... perhaps forty are of professional quality. Rock and roll is growing all over the country, but here, where the growth is greater than anywhere else, there are differences. For one thing, as the jazz critic Ralph J. Gleason puts it, “San ...
... perhaps forty are of professional quality. Rock and roll is growing all over the country, but here, where the growth is greater than anywhere else, there are differences. For one thing, as the jazz critic Ralph J. Gleason puts it, “San ...
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... perhaps only) gig at the annual picnic of the People's World, the West Coast Communist weekly. The San Francisco sound is a very hard-driving folk-rock with strong blues and electronic influences. A San Francisco band usually consists ...
... perhaps only) gig at the annual picnic of the People's World, the West Coast Communist weekly. The San Francisco sound is a very hard-driving folk-rock with strong blues and electronic influences. A San Francisco band usually consists ...
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... perhaps it will be because, in the words of one Los Angeles record company executive, “these San Francisco groups refuse to cooperate”—meaning they won't make the basic changes in their music that this Angeleno believes are the key to ...
... perhaps it will be because, in the words of one Los Angeles record company executive, “these San Francisco groups refuse to cooperate”—meaning they won't make the basic changes in their music that this Angeleno believes are the key to ...
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... perhaps, “Long live the victory of the people's war” rolls trippingly off the tongue; presumably something is lost in the translation. Weatherman's view of the movement at home as the servant of a revolutionary dynamic abroad invites ...
... perhaps, “Long live the victory of the people's war” rolls trippingly off the tongue; presumably something is lost in the translation. Weatherman's view of the movement at home as the servant of a revolutionary dynamic abroad invites ...
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STARSPANGLED BANTER | |
THE WORD FROM | |
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