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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... post-adolescent, I styled myself a radical, I was always what Europeans call a social democrat, which is what we Americans call a liberal Democrat, and I still am. But the cultural roots of my politics are as much in the dissenting ...
... post-adolescent, I styled myself a radical, I was always what Europeans call a social democrat, which is what we Americans call a liberal Democrat, and I still am. But the cultural roots of my politics are as much in the dissenting ...
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... post-presidential career. It is now the conventional wisdom to say that Mr. Carter is a far better ex-president than he was a president. And in this instance the conventional wisdom has got it right. No historian would place Carter ...
... post-presidential career. It is now the conventional wisdom to say that Mr. Carter is a far better ex-president than he was a president. And in this instance the conventional wisdom has got it right. No historian would place Carter ...
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... post-presidential careers, because if they can't change our judgment of a presidency they can certainly deepen our understanding of it. Away from the constrictions and exaggerations of office, undistorted by the powers he wielded and ...
... post-presidential careers, because if they can't change our judgment of a presidency they can certainly deepen our understanding of it. Away from the constrictions and exaggerations of office, undistorted by the powers he wielded and ...
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... post-presidential career shows that his inner resources—his inner strengths—are extraordinary, far deeper than they appeared to be when he was president. Many other aspects of the character people saw in him then have turned out to be ...
... post-presidential career shows that his inner resources—his inner strengths—are extraordinary, far deeper than they appeared to be when he was president. Many other aspects of the character people saw in him then have turned out to be ...
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... post-presidential travels, with the power of the U.S. government no longer at his command, he has sometimes filled the gap with a display of physical courage. When he denounced the rigging of a Panamanian election by the Manuel Noriega ...
... post-presidential travels, with the power of the U.S. government no longer at his command, he has sometimes filled the gap with a display of physical courage. When he denounced the rigging of a Panamanian election by the Manuel Noriega ...
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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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