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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... thing. Why am I telling you all this? I'm not sure, exactly, why I feel the need to offer such a tortured explanation for calling a book about politics Politics. Certainly it's not just to argue that because Macdonald borrowed from ...
... thing. Why am I telling you all this? I'm not sure, exactly, why I feel the need to offer such a tortured explanation for calling a book about politics Politics. Certainly it's not just to argue that because Macdonald borrowed from ...
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... thing than he was, but that is at least partly a reflection of our respective political eras. I admire Macdonald for the fierceness of his opposition not only to communism but to all forms of tyranny. (This was one aspect of his ...
... thing than he was, but that is at least partly a reflection of our respective political eras. I admire Macdonald for the fierceness of his opposition not only to communism but to all forms of tyranny. (This was one aspect of his ...
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... thing, as the jazz critic Ralph J. Gleason puts it, “San Francisco bands are oriented toward playing for people. In Los Angeles, the pattern is for a group to practice and practice in a garage until it's good enough to record.” There ...
... thing, as the jazz critic Ralph J. Gleason puts it, “San Francisco bands are oriented toward playing for people. In Los Angeles, the pattern is for a group to practice and practice in a garage until it's good enough to record.” There ...
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... thing that ever happened to me.” THE MUSIC APPEALS to a broad range of people, but it is a definite part of the “hippie scene,” San Francisco's new bohemianism. Unlike the sullen Beats of the fifties, who sat around in coffee houses ...
... thing that ever happened to me.” THE MUSIC APPEALS to a broad range of people, but it is a definite part of the “hippie scene,” San Francisco's new bohemianism. Unlike the sullen Beats of the fifties, who sat around in coffee houses ...
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... things. He becomes more existential than the existentialists, because his total immersion in the present is untainted by ... thing as a hippie who favors the war in Vietnam, but few hippies are political activists. They tend to think in ...
... things. He becomes more existential than the existentialists, because his total immersion in the present is untainted by ... thing as a hippie who favors the war in Vietnam, but few hippies are political activists. They tend to think in ...
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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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