The best American political writing 2006
By: edited by Royce Flippin
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781560259121
Subjects: Politics and government; American essays; Political culture
Table of contents: title: Part one: Politics in the Bush era. The White House under siege; title: How Bush blew it / Evan Thomas; title: High noon in Crawford / Evgenia Peretz; title: Political science: The Bush administration's war on the laboratory / Michael Specter; title: The worst president in history? / Sean Wilentz; title: Part two: State of the Union. Selling Washington / Elizabeth Drew; title: The great American pork barrel / Ken Silverstein; title: How divided are we? / James Q. Wilson; title: Border war / John B. Judis; title: Part three: (Not) politics as usual. None dare call it stolen: Ohio, the election, and America's Servile Press / Mark Crispin Miller; title: A new black power / Walter Mosley; title: The art of testifying: the confirmation hearings as theatre / Janet Malcolm; title: The third term: the dawning of a different sort of post-presidency / Joe Conason; title: Part four: Republicans vs. Democrats. Getting ahead in the GOP / Benjamin Wallace-Wells; title: The framing wars / Matt Bai; title: The Bush-Cheney era ends here / Ryan Lizza; title: Not as lame as you think: Democrats learn the art of opposition / Amy Sullivan; title: Party in search of a notion / Michael Tomasky; title: Part five: Iraq and the war on terror. Why Iraq has no army / James Fallows; title: Afghanistan: the other war / Christian Parenti; title: Taking stock of the forever war / Mark Danner; title: Big brother is listening / James Bamford; title: Part six: America in an uncertain world. After neoconservatism / Francis Fukuyama; title: The Iran plans / Seymour Hersh; title: North Korea: the war game / Scott Stossel; title: The Chinese are our friends / Thomas P.M. Barnett.