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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... YOUNG KENNEDYS MOBY-RICK THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF THE AMERICAN YUPPIE BOOK HIM 13. 2000 + 9/11 FIVE PERCENTER BOTH SIDES NOW THEY'VE GOT PERSONALITY COLLEGE HIGHJINKS ALL PERFECTLY LEGAL EPPUR SIMUOVE ADVICE AND CONSENT GENEROUS GEORGE ...
... YOUNG KENNEDYS MOBY-RICK THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF THE AMERICAN YUPPIE BOOK HIM 13. 2000 + 9/11 FIVE PERCENTER BOTH SIDES NOW THEY'VE GOT PERSONALITY COLLEGE HIGHJINKS ALL PERFECTLY LEGAL EPPUR SIMUOVE ADVICE AND CONSENT GENEROUS GEORGE ...
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... Young People's Socialist League; eventually she became a schoolteacher and then a professor of history at Teachers College, Columbia. When Rick was in first grade, Sidney and Hazel packed up and moved him and his younger sister Katrina ...
... Young People's Socialist League; eventually she became a schoolteacher and then a professor of history at Teachers College, Columbia. When Rick was in first grade, Sidney and Hazel packed up and moved him and his younger sister Katrina ...
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... young males. Millions of young men and women began to think of themselves as radical or, at least, as radically at odds with their government and its war in Vietnam. At the same time, for the young, politics was becoming increasingly ...
... young males. Millions of young men and women began to think of themselves as radical or, at least, as radically at odds with their government and its war in Vietnam. At the same time, for the young, politics was becoming increasingly ...
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... young girls ventured into the Barbary Coast at their peril. The Chronicle struck back with another editorial, “Certain Questions About a Police Raid,” which asked, among other things, “Was the Friday night raid vindictive or punitive or ...
... young girls ventured into the Barbary Coast at their peril. The Chronicle struck back with another editorial, “Certain Questions About a Police Raid,” which asked, among other things, “Was the Friday night raid vindictive or punitive or ...
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... young man named Lee “Thunder Machine” Quanstrum married his blonde fiancée, “Space Daisy” (many hippies affect comic-book-type nicknames), in a Unitarian (what else?) ceremony conducted on the bandstand. Graham later got a thank-you ...
... young man named Lee “Thunder Machine” Quanstrum married his blonde fiancée, “Space Daisy” (many hippies affect comic-book-type nicknames), in a Unitarian (what else?) ceremony conducted on the bandstand. Graham later got a thank-you ...
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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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