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Politics : observations & arguments, 1966-2004 / Hendrik Hertzberg.

Title: Politics : observations & arguments, 1966-2004 / Hendrik Hertzberg.
Author: Hertzberg, Hendrik
Publication: New York : Penguin Books, 2004.

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xxviii, 686 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

An analysis of American politics from Lyndon Johnson's administration to the present is arranged by such themes as campaigns, the media, and wars, in a volume that illuminates particular events in modern history.

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Includes index.

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Contents

Enough About the Sixties -- The San Francisco Sound: New music, new subculture -- Weather Report: White Tornado: Lunacy on the Left -- Everywhere's Somewhere: John and Yoko come to New York -- Why the War Was Immoral: Looking back at Vietnam and anti-Vietnam -- You Had to Be There: What Woodstock was "like" -- Big Men -- A Moral Ideologue: The character of Jimmy Carter -- The Child Monarch: Ronald Reagan's surprising presidency -- Scaling Mt. Kennedy: R.F.K.'s journey from fixer to martyrdom -- Speechifyin' -- In Praise of Judson Welliver: Judson who? -- Wascally Woss: Perot's favorite fuzzy animal -- Speeding Ticket: Cicero goes Geraldo -- Two Speeches: J.F.K.'s Inaugural and Clinton's -- Big Talk: It's about addressing the mainstream -- Star-Spangled Banter: Can we please have a better national anthem? -- Talking Points: Behind the lines with Peggy Noonan -- The Word from W.: A shockingly good Inaugural Address -- Grinding Axis: The rhetorical uses of evil -- Judeo-Christians --^
Antidisestablishmentarianism: A Jaycee protests -- Vatican't: Instructions from Rome and Alabama -- Secular Sermon: The stakes in the Rushdie affair -- Two Little Words: One nation under God (stet) -- Dividends: Bush's preferential option for the rich -- A Campaign -- Sluicegate '88: The journalistic stoning of Gary Hart -- Sporting News: Tarred by the Miami Herald's brush -- G.O.P. Follies: The Republicans debate -- Tuesday Night Patball: Republicans and Democrats, starring Tom Brokaw -- Monster from the Id: Politics as psychotherapy, from Gary Hart -- First Returns: Good morning, Iowa -- Dole's Charm: His masks of comedy and tragedy -- The Father, the Son, and the Holy Politician: Pat Robertson's Oedipus complex -- The Tortoise: Dukakis's slow, sure bid for the nomination -- Ivy Scoreboard: Which is more elitist, Harvard or Yale? -- Dynasties Old and New: Scenes from the Democratic Convention -- Front Man: The moral decline of the American ruling class --^
Roboflop: Make that 999 points of light and one dim bulb -- And What if ...? Debate three: the remix -- Aroma of Bull: Following the Bush campaign caravan -- Recriminations '88: Hell, I Dunno: Parceling out blame -- Foreigners -- Poland's Revolution: The Proletariat--remember them? -- Le Changement: L'anticommunisme des Socialistes -- Death of a Patriot: Olof Palme, American -- Casualties of War: Oops, Russia got out of Afghanistan -- Democracia: The fall of the Berlin Wall as seen from Central America -- Civics, Nicaragua-Style: The Sandinistas blow it -- Non-Party Lines: Scenes from the Soviet twilight -- Team Player: "Observing" an election -- Gremlins and Goblins: The end of the Soviet Union -- The Kosovo Precinct: Police work in the Balkans -- A Tale of Two Cubas: Havana and Miami fight over Elian -- Wingers -- McGovernist Conspiracies: The threat of ideological fluoridation -- Neoconfab: Debating whether Soviet power will still triumph --^
Sweet and Sour: Wild and crazy Republicans in convention assembled -- Marxism: The Sequel: The dialectics of Newt Gingrich -- Cookie Monster: The Speaker as author -- Bad News for Bigots: The good news from Bob Jones University -- Sheer Helms: He preferred his racism straight up -- Can You Forgive Him?: A right-wing conspirator comes clean -- Rush in Rehab: Megadoses for megadittos -- The Wayward Media -- Headline: The guy who wrote Ford to City: Drop Dead -- The Big Tune-Out: Whaddya mean, "no story"? -- Entertainment for Men: Which'll it be, Playboy or Penthouse? -- Cross Talk: An irritating anchorhabit -- Press Pass: Clinton awes the hacks -- Topless Tabloids of Gotham: Latest on Post-News slayfest! -- George Without Tears: What was John Kennedy's magazine all about? -- What's Up, Doc?: Dr. or Mr.? -- L'Affaire Blair: Fabulousness at the New York Times -- Radio Daze: Same thing on every station -- Wedge Issues -- Big Boobs: The good parts of the Meese porn report --^
Burning Question: Whom does capital punishment punish? -- Federal Death: Gallows to gurney -- Wounds of Race: The bitter truths behind affirmative action -- Flagellation: Flag burning? Can't be done -- Gore's Greatest Bong Hits: The dopey drug war -- Labor's China Syndrome: The problem is, unions are illegal -- Cops and Wallets: Have faith in Bruce, please, Officers -- Unnatural Law: Taking sodomy private -- Northern Light: O Canada -- High Crimes -- Dean's First Day: The Senate Watergate hearings get under way -- Tower Play: Capitol Hill prissiness claims a Republican sinner -- What a Whopper: Clarence Thomas's lies about lying -- Tales of the Tapes: Nixon had the right idea -- What It's About: Evidently not the opposite of sex -- Ghosts in the Machine -- Let's Get Representative: How to make Congress democratic -- Twelve Is Enough: A simple cure for chronic incumbency -- Boom Vox: The screeching, deafening voice of "the people" --^
Idea Woman: The actual, and excellent, thoughts of Lani Guinier -- Filibuster I: Catch-XXII: The Senate rule that killed health care ... -- Filibuster II: Filibusted: ... and how and why it should be killed, too -- The Case for Proportional Representation: Why voting is almost never a political act in the U.S. -- Letter from New Hampshire: This Must Be the Place: Somebody has to decide who'll be president, right? -- The Lesson of Red Ken: The real novelty of London's mayoral election -- Best Picture: Why good movies get nominated and bad ones get Oscars -- Framed Up: What the Constitution gets wrong -- Yuppies and Other Leftovers -- The Education of Mr. Smith: The morality of pragmatism -- All the Fine Young Kennedys: Caroline and John, among others -- Moby-Rick: In quest of Leviathan -- The Short Happy Life of the American Yuppie: The rise and fall of a cultural archetype -- Book Him: Bill Clinton and other presidential memoirists -- 2000 + 9/11 --^
Five Percenter: Why it was right to keep Nader out of the debates -- Both Sides Now: Clinton versus Clinton -- They've Got Personality: What are the candidates "about"? -- College High Jinks: What if the loser wins? -- All Perfectly Legal: Bush becomes president-appoint -- Eppur Si Muove: Gore and Galileo -- Advice and Consent: The case for obstructionism -- Generous George: Bush disguises an agenda of greed -- Defense Mechanisms: The obsession with missile defense -- Tuesday, and After: The reality of horror and the metaphor of war -- Stimulation: Squandering 9/11's only gift -- Differences: A success that's too conventional for comfort -- Recounted Out: An election result no longer in doubt -- Mine Shaft: Lessons of the Quecreek Nine -- Manifesto: A dismal, ignoble vision of "national security" -- 2000 and Two: The unmet challenge of that undemocratic election -- Too Much Information: Information awareness that's, like, total -- Blixkrieg: The unilateral rush to war in Iraq --^
Attack Anxiety: How did it come to this? -- Collateral Damage: Things hidden in the fog of war -- Building Nations: What's sauce for Iraq ... -- Unsteady State: Earth to Bush: Bush to Mars.

ISBN

1594200181 (hc.)
9780143035534 (pbk.)
0143035533 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004044332

OCLC

54407435
SCSB-10440266

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Harvard Library