Insider Baseball: from Political Fictions (Kindle Single) (A Vintage Short)
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A Vintage Shorts Selection • Almost three decades ago, iconic and incomparable American essayist Joan Didion’s now-classic report from the Dukakis campaign trail exposed, in no uncertain terms, the complete sham that is the modern American presidential run.
Writing with bite and some humor too, Didion betrays “the process”—the way in which power is exchanged and the status quo is maintained. All insiders—politicians, journalists, spin doctors—participate in a political narrative that is “designed as it is to maintain the illusion of consensus by obscuring rather than addressing actual issues.” The optics of presidential campaigns have grown ever more farcical and remote from the needs and issues most relevant to Americans’ lives, and Didion’s elegant, shrewd, and prescient commentary has never been more urgent than it is right now.
An ebook short.
ASIN : B01KS1HLP2
Publisher : Vintage
Accessibility : Learn more
Publication date : October 4, 2016
Language : English
File size : 3.0 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 39 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-0525433828
Page Flip : Enabled
Part of series : A Vintage Short
Best Sellers Rank: #714,730 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #47 in Kindle Singles: Politics & Social Sciences #48 in One-Hour Politics & Social Sciences Short Reads #251 in Kindle Singles: Literature & Fiction
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A Vintage Shorts Selection • Almost three decades ago, iconic and incomparable American essayist Joan Didion’s now-classic report from the Dukakis campaign trail exposed, in no uncertain terms, the complete sham that is the modern American presidential run.
Writing with bite and some humor too, Didion betrays “the process”—the way in which power is exchanged and the status quo is maintained. All insiders—politicians, journalists, spin doctors—participate in a political narrative that is “designed as it is to maintain the illusion of consensus by obscuring rather than addressing actual issues.” The optics of presidential campaigns have grown ever more farcical and remote from the needs and issues most relevant to Americans’ lives, and Didion’s elegant, shrewd, and prescient commentary has never been more urgent than it is right now.
An ebook short.
ASIN : B01KS1HLP2
Publisher : Vintage
Accessibility : Learn more
Publication date : October 4, 2016
Language : English
File size : 3.0 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 39 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-0525433828
Page Flip : Enabled
Part of series : A Vintage Short
Best Sellers Rank: #714,730 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #47 in Kindle Singles: Politics & Social Sciences #48 in One-Hour Politics & Social Sciences Short Reads #251 in Kindle Singles: Literature & Fiction
Customer Reviews: 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (28) var dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction; P.when(‘A’, ‘ready’).execute(function(A) { if (dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction !== true) { dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction = true; A.declarative( ‘acrLink-click-metrics’, ‘click’, { “allowLinkDefault”: true }, function (event) { if (window.ue) { ue.count(“acrLinkClickCount”, (ue.count(“acrLinkClickCount”) || 0) + 1); } } ); } }); P.when(‘A’, ‘cf’).execute(function(A) { A.declarative(‘acrStarsLink-click-metrics’, ‘click’, { “allowLinkDefault” : true }, function(event){ if(window.ue) { ue.count(“acrStarsLinkWithPopoverClickCount”, (ue.count(“acrStarsLinkWithPopoverClickCount”) || 0) + 1); } }); });
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