The Washington Book: How To Read Politics And Politicians
- Autor: Carlos Lozada
- Narrador: Carlos Lozada
- Editor: Simon & Schuster
- Duración: 12:49:57
Sinopsis
The Pulitzer Prize–winning opinion columnist at The New York Times explores how people in power reveal themselves through their books and writings and, in so doing, illuminates the personal, political, and cultural conflicts driving Washington and the nation.
As a long-time book critic and columnist in Washington, Carlos Lozada dissects all manner of texts: commission reports, political reporting, Supreme Court decisions, and congressional inquiries to understand the controversies animating life in the capital. He also reads copious books by politicians and top officials: tell-all accounts by administration insiders, campaign biographies by candidates longing for high office, revisionist memoirs by those leaving those offices behind. With this provocative essay collection, Lozada argues that no matter how carefully political figures sanitize their experiences, positions, and records, no matter how diligently they present themselves in the best and safest and most electable light, they almost always let slip the truth. They show us their faults and blind spots, their ambitions and compromises, their underlying motives and insecurities. Whether they mean to or not, they tell us who they really are.
In his memoirs and speeches, Barack Obama constantly invoked the power and meaning of his life story, Lozada notes, a sign of how the former president capitalized on his personal symbolism, trying to transform it from inspiration on the campaign trail into an all-purpose governing tool. In a soliloquy about his hair in a self-help book published two decades ago, Donald Trump revealed not just his vanity, Lozada explains, but his utter isolation from the world, long before he entered the bubble of the White House. In deft and lacerating prose, Lozada interprets the unresolved tensions of Hillary Clinton’s ideological beliefs. He imagines the wonderful memoir George H.W. Bush could have given us but instead left scattered in throughout various books and letters. He explores why Kamala Harris has struggled to carve out a distinctive role as vice president. He explains how Ron DeSantis’s pitch to America is just a list of enemies. And he even glimpses what Vladimir Putin fears the most, and why he seeks conflict with the West. He does so all through their own books, and their own words.
Lozada reads these books so you don’t have to. The Washington Book is the perfect guide to the state of our politics, and then men and women who dominate the terrain. It explores the construction of personal identity, the delusions of leadership, and that mix of subservience and ambition that can define a life in politics. The more we read the stories of Washington, Lozada contends, the clearer our understanding of the competing visions of our country.
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021 TheWashingtonBook Chapter18 BidensStillversusTrumpsAgain
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022 TheWashingtonBook PartII Fighting Chapter19 911WasaTest,andWeFailed
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023 TheWashingtonBook Chapter20 TheCautionaryTaleofHRMcMaster
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024 TheWashingtonBook Chapter21 HowtoReadVladimirPutin
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025 TheWashingtonBook Chapter22 LiberalsversusAuthoritarians
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026 TheWashingtonBook Chapter23 AHistoryofAmericaa??????sComingWarwithChina
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027 TheWashingtonBook PartIII Belonging Chapter24 ReadingTocquevilleatJusttheRightTime
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028 TheWashingtonBook Chapter25 TheRadicalChicofTa-NehisiCoates
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029 TheWashingtonBook Chapter26 TheProjectofthe1619Project
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030 TheWashingtonBook Chapter27 AlwaysColumbine
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031 TheWashingtonBook Chapter28 JoshHawleyandtheProblemwithMen
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032 TheWashingtonBook PartIV Enduring Chapter29 TheChallengesofImpeachment
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033 TheWashingtonBook Chapter30 StaceyAbrams????sLeapofFaith
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034 TheWashingtonBook Chapter31 OfScandalsandWarnings
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035 TheWashingtonBook Chapter32 TheUnitedHatesofAmerica
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036 TheWashingtonBook Chapter33 TheBigLieandtheBigJoke
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037 TheWashingtonBook Chapter34 MuellerUkraineandJanuary6
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038 TheWashingtonBook Chapter35 RoeCaseyandDobbs
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039 TheWashingtonBook Chapter36 HowFarWilltheJusticesGo
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040 TheWashingtonBook Chapter37 TheNextCivilWar
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