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The most critical election in living memory is viewed in real time through the eyes of one of our most trusted political commentators.

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Jonathan Freedland

In book form, without the cooling effect of The New Yorker's trademark typeface or the ironic detachment provided by an adjacent line drawing or two, Hertzberg's fury is naked to the eye. And yet he is no finger-jabber leftist, hectoring his reader in the manner of so many radicals in print. The writing is too good for that. Hertzberg has a novelist's control of metaphor and a comedian's gift for the one-liner…But it is not only Hertzberg's wit that prevents him from being a left wingnut. He may stake out radical positions…but he is, more often, a spokesman for those unsung soldiers in the progressive army: the brokers of the messy compromise.
—The New York Times

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A staff writer and editor at the New Yorker, Hertzberg (Politics) paints a triptych of the 2008 presidential campaign, opening with “The Wreckage,” mostly Bush's second term (September 10, 2004–June 29, 2007) through “The Marathon” of the primaries (August 10, 2007–June 5, 2008), and closing with “The Sprint” to the presidency (June 13, 2008–November 7, 2008). Fearlessly liberal and passionately partisan (“I've followed the Obama phenomenon with the tracks of my tears”), Hertzberg's book is a “real-time, contemporaneous record” of the last days of the Bush administration and its “crimes and misdemeanors that have inflicted unprecedented disgrace on our country's moral and political standing” as well as a blow-by blow of the campaign, with juicy analysis of the diversionary role played by political pundits. Readers similarly enraptured with the president's “political magic” will bask in the book's informative and witty discussion; those who don't share the author's “Obamaphilia” might find this an effusive and imbalanced rehashing of recent history. (Nov.)

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A collection of astute articles penned as longtime New Yorker writer Hertzberg (Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004, 2004, etc.) watched Barack Obama's historic presidential campaign. It was the longest, most expensive and, arguably, the most important presidential election in American history, one that "was as severe a test of stamina and character as any our fundamentally sadistic policy system has ever imposed on a set of candidates." Veteran political analyst Hertzberg, who also served as Jimmy Carter's speechwriter, reveled in every detail. His collection of short pieces, dated from September 2004 (the Democratic National Convention) to November 2008 (the election), provide a real-time synthesis of everything from the early debates to the veracity of the blogosphere-the articles included here are culled from the "Comments" section of the New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" and from Hertzberg's political blog. When parsing Republican nominees and their platforms, the author is consistently fair, though unabashedly liberal. His admiration for Obama is conveyed in eloquent, rigorous prose, and his criticism of attack advertisements and the legacy of the Bush administration are bolstered by deep knowledge of political history and verifiable facts. Hertzberg effectively demonstrates how the election was momentous not just because a Democrat was elected in a time of Republican distress, but because it forever altered the political landscape: A black man won the Democratic nomination for the first time in history; a female vice-presidential candidate challenged the paradigm of political experience; issues such as health care, the environment and the economy trumped thefear-mongering campaigns of the last several cycles; journalism as an industry and an institution was challenged by the egalitarian proliferation of live-bloggers. Without sacrificing the sublime wordplay that devoted New Yorker fans hold dear, the author presents an incisive, profound and intellectually challenging commentary on a landmark series of events in American political history. The perfect book with which to recall and appreciate the significance of Obama's journey to the White House.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781594202360
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Publication date: 10/29/2009
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 6.54 (w) x 9.58 (h) x 1.12 (d)

Meet the Author

Hendrik Hertzberg

Hendrik Hertzberg has been a staff writer and editor at The New Yorker since 1992 and was a staff writer there in the early 1970s as well. He is the author of Politics. He has also been a naval officer, a Newsweek reporter, President Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter, and (twice) editor of The New Republic.

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