¡Obamanos!
The Birth of a New Political Era
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- 4,49 €
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- 4,49 €
Publisher Description
"Hertzberg has a novelist's control of metaphor and a comedian's gift for the one-liner."
-The New York Times Book Review
¡Obámanos! is powered by celebrated political essayist Hendrik Hertzberg's "Comments" for The New Yorker's "The Talk of the Town" and the personal blog he began keeping on the magazine's Web site fifteen months before the election. Hertzberg follows the players and the stars while examining the issues that emerged as critical during the debates such as health care, the Iraq war, and the economic crisis. Through his observation and analysis of the campaign's defining moments, we come to see the current political landscape in a new light. ¡Obámanos!--the title inspired by a poster Hertzberg saw on a dusty road near Santa Fe-heralds the opening of a new era in American politics.
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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 through "The Marathon" of the primaries , and closing with "The Sprint" to the presidency . 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.
