Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004Penguin, 28 de juny 2005 - 720 pàgines 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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3 | |
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EVERYWHERES SOMEWHERE | 27 |
WHY THE WAR WAS IMMORAL | 32 |
YOU HAD TO BE THERE | 39 |
2 BIG MEN | 43 |
HEADLINE | 341 |
THE BIG TUNEOUT | 345 |
ENTERTAINMENT FOR MEN | 351 |
CROSS TALK | 354 |
PRESS PASS | 357 |
TOPLESS TABLOIDS OF GOTHAM | 360 |
GEORGE WITHOUT TEARS | 378 |
WHATS UP DOC? | 383 |
A MORAL IDEOLOGUE | 45 |
THE CHILD MONARCH | 70 |
SCALING MT KENNEDY | 93 |
3 SPEECHIFYIN | 109 |
IN PRAISE OF JUDSON WELLIVER | 113 |
WASCALLY WOSS | 117 |
SPEEDING TICKET | 121 |
TWO SPEECHES | 124 |
BIG TALK | 127 |
STARSPANGLED BANTER | 131 |
TALKING POINTS | 134 |
THE WORD FROM W | 140 |
GRINDING AXIS | 143 |
4 JUDEOCHRISTIANS | 147 |
ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM | 151 |
VATICANT | 154 |
SECULAR SERMON | 157 |
TWO LITTLE WORDS | 160 |
DIVIDENDS | 163 |
5 A CAMPAIGN | 167 |
SLUICEGATE | 169 |
SPORTING NEWS | 174 |
GOP FOLLIES | 177 |
TUESDAY NIGHT PATBALL | 182 |
MONSTER FROM THE ID | 185 |
FIRST RETURNS | 191 |
DOLES CHARM | 194 |
THE FATHER THE SON AND THE HOLY POLITICIAN | 200 |
THE TORTOISE | 208 |
IVY SCOREBOARD | 215 |
DYNASTIES OLD AND NEW | 219 |
FRONT MAN | 222 |
ROBOFLOP | 227 |
AND WHAT IF ? | 238 |
AROMA OF BULL | 242 |
HELL I DUNNO | 248 |
6 FOREIGNERS | 253 |
POLANDS REVOLUTION | 257 |
LE CHANGEMENT | 260 |
DEATH OF A PATRIOT | 263 |
CASUALTIES OF WAR | 267 |
DEMOCRACIA | 271 |
CIVICS NICARAGUASTYLE | 274 |
NONPARTY LINES | 281 |
TEAM PLAYER | 285 |
GREMLINS AND GOBLINS | 289 |
THE KOSOVO PRECINCT | 292 |
A TALE OF TWO CUBAS | 295 |
7 WINGERS | 299 |
McGOVERNIST CONSPIRACIES | 303 |
NEOCONFAB | 305 |
SWEET AND SOUR | 308 |
THE SEQUEL | 311 |
COOKIE MONSTER | 315 |
BAD NEWS FOR BIGOTS | 319 |
SHEER HELMS | 322 |
CAN YOU FORGIVE HIM? | 325 |
RUSH IN REHAB | 334 |
8 THE WAYWARD MEDIA | 339 |
LAFFAIRE BLAIR | 386 |
RADIO DAZE | 391 |
9 WEDGE ISSUES | 395 |
BIG BOOBS | 397 |
BURNING QUESTION | 407 |
FEDERAL DEATH | 410 |
WOUNDS OF RACE | 413 |
FLAGELLATION | 418 |
GORES GREATEST BONG HITS | 422 |
LABORS CHINA SYNDROME | 426 |
COPS AND WALLETS | 429 |
UNNATURAL LAW | 432 |
NORTHERN LIGHT | 435 |
DEANS FIRST DAY | 443 |
TOWER PLAY | 447 |
WHAT A WHOPPER | 451 |
TALES OF THE TAPES | 454 |
WHAT ITS ABOUT | 458 |
11 GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE | 461 |
LETS GET REPRESENTATIVE | 465 |
TWELVE IS ENOUGH | 474 |
BOOM VOX | 481 |
IDEA WOMAN | 484 |
CATCHXXII | 488 |
FILIBUSTED | 491 |
THE CASE FOR PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION | 495 |
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE | 508 |
THE LESSON OF RED KEN | 516 |
BEST PICTURE | 519 |
FRAMED UP | 522 |
12 YUPPIES AND OTHER LEFTOVERS | 533 |
THE EDUCATION OF MR SMITH | 535 |
ALL THE FINE YOUNG KENNEDYS | 543 |
MOBYRICK | 546 |
THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF THE AMERICAN YUPPIE | 549 |
BOOK HIM | 563 |
13 2000 + 911 2004 | 567 |
BOTH SIDES NOW | 579 |
THEYVE GOT PERSONALITY | 582 |
COLLEGE HIGH JINKS | 587 |
ALL PERFECTLY LEGAL | 590 |
EPPUR SI MUOVE | 593 |
ADVICE AND CONSENT | 596 |
GENEROUS GEORGE | 599 |
TUESDAY AND AFTER | 602 |
DIFFERENCES | 605 |
RECOUNTED OUT | 608 |
MINE SHAFT | 611 |
MANIFESTO | 614 |
2000 AND TWO | 619 |
TOO MUCH INFORMATION | 622 |
BLIXKRIEG | 626 |
ATTACK ANXIETY | 629 |
COLLATERAL DAMAGE | 634 |
BUILDING NATIONS | 637 |
UNSTEADY STATE | 640 |
NEWTIME RELIGION | 644 |
BLUES | 648 |
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