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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... conservative. The president has ignored his lack of a mandate and jettisoned the idea of a “compassionate” and conciliatory conservatism for a swaggering reassessment of the American political way of life, foreign and domestic, since ...
... conservative. The president has ignored his lack of a mandate and jettisoned the idea of a “compassionate” and conciliatory conservatism for a swaggering reassessment of the American political way of life, foreign and domestic, since ...
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... conservative libertarian anarchist; his politics were exotic, changeable, and all over the place. Mine have all along been boringly moderate and consistent. Even when, as a post-adolescent, I styled myself a radical, I was always what ...
... conservative libertarian anarchist; his politics were exotic, changeable, and all over the place. Mine have all along been boringly moderate and consistent. Even when, as a post-adolescent, I styled myself a radical, I was always what ...
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... conservative values in action. Somewhere, perhaps, an impressionable Lee Atwater took note. We kept driving—slowly, because of the traffic and because by now the running boards and bumpers of our VW were piled high with people catching ...
... conservative values in action. Somewhere, perhaps, an impressionable Lee Atwater took note. We kept driving—slowly, because of the traffic and because by now the running boards and bumpers of our VW were piled high with people catching ...
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... conservative wing of his party. This observation applies as much to ideologues of the left as to ideologues of the right. If, say, a Hubert Humphrey or an Edward Kennedy had ever become president, then he, like Reagan, would not have ...
... conservative wing of his party. This observation applies as much to ideologues of the left as to ideologues of the right. If, say, a Hubert Humphrey or an Edward Kennedy had ever become president, then he, like Reagan, would not have ...
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... conservative moment: his election had more to do with moral revulsion at Watergate than with political enthusiasm for large-scale programmatic innovation. (The interest groups never quite admitted this, but they seem to have learned ...
... conservative moment: his election had more to do with moral revulsion at Watergate than with political enthusiasm for large-scale programmatic innovation. (The interest groups never quite admitted this, but they seem to have learned ...
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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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