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Views from the Side Mirror
Herzog M Robert
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
Views from the Side Mirror: Essaying America spans 20 years in American political and cultural life.
From the Foreword, by Susan Herman, President of the ACLU: “The essays here are the products of a bold and restless mind. Robert’s range of thoughts on the topics of our day is as individual as it is broad. He does not toe the line of any political party. He marches to his own ever-changing beat.”
There’s the America that is, and the one that could be. Views explore that gulf between, to see how we got here, and what we can do about it.
Interspersed among the book’s essays are descriptions from Lower Manhattan of the surreal hours and days after 9/11, when we had to show papers to get to our home and all the trucks heading north were covered with white dust that splayed behind them.
I portray the underlying dynamic of American politics, between Republican venality and Democratic haplessness – and what that foretells for the impeachment process. We needed the Avengers and got the Muppets.
If the Democrats and Republicans were waiters, we’d send them back to the kitchen with no tip for their lousy service. You can say we enjoy great freedom in America. But the reason we can say what we want is because nobody in power is listening.
The book’s concluding essay asks the question “Trump: Virus or Vaccine?” Will his time in office inoculate the country from his brand of politics for personal gain, or has he permanently infected the body politic?
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threats to democracy, 9/11, elections, liberals and conservatives, Democrats vs. Republicans, Sixties perspective, historical essays, democracy, politics, American politics, political commentary