Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004Penguin, 28.06.2005 - 720 Seiten 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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... Clinton presidency and then by the darker era of the 2000 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 ...
... Clinton presidency and then by the darker era of the 2000 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 ...
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... Clinton's determination to use force if necessary—turned what would have been a bloody invasion with casualties and bitterness on all sides into a peaceful and apparently quite successful occupation. Carter was roundly attacked for his ...
... Clinton's determination to use force if necessary—turned what would have been a bloody invasion with casualties and bitterness on all sides into a peaceful and apparently quite successful occupation. Carter was roundly attacked for his ...
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... Clinton and the country and had then gone back to Plains and kept quiet for a while, he now would be a universally recognized and celebrated hero. Clearly, this was one of those times when reticence would have been the most effective ...
... Clinton and the country and had then gone back to Plains and kept quiet for a while, he now would be a universally recognized and celebrated hero. Clearly, this was one of those times when reticence would have been the most effective ...
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... Clinton—have been drawn from the pragmatic center. (No leader of the left or liberal wing of the Democratic Party has ever become president— which is one reason that the conventional assumption that liberalism has been tried and found ...
... Clinton—have been drawn from the pragmatic center. (No leader of the left or liberal wing of the Democratic Party has ever become president— which is one reason that the conventional assumption that liberalism has been tried and found ...
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... Clinton, the cosmopolitan Rhodes scholar, former antiwar protester, and one-time Senate staffer—had had no exposure to national issues and national politics before he started running for president. And, third, Carter was brand-new. He ...
... Clinton, the cosmopolitan Rhodes scholar, former antiwar protester, and one-time Senate staffer—had had no exposure to national issues and national politics before he started running for president. And, third, Carter was brand-new. He ...
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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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