The Best of The Nation: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture (Nation Books) - Softcover

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9781560252672: The Best of The Nation: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture (Nation Books)

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ISBN 10: 1560252677 ISBN 13: 9781560252672

Publisher: Nation Books, 2000

For 135 years The Nation magazine has embodied the critical spirit of dissenting journalism, giving voice to the passionate witnesses whose engagement with today's controversies has startled, provoked, and entertained. As E. L. Doctorow wrote of The Nation, "The editors never published anything less than what was urgently on their minds." Here is Patricia Williams on the Million Man March; Tony Kushner on gay liberation; William Styron on Prozac and Halcion; Susan Sontag on Bosnia; Jonathan Schell on the case for abolishing nuclear weapons; and Erica Jong's response to the Modern Library's list of the past century's 100 greatest books -- a list of her own. Finally, Michael Moore asks, "Is the Left Nuts? Or Is It Me?"

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About the Author:

Katrina vanden Heuvel is editor and publisher of The Nation. She lives in New York City.

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Its circulation is modest, but the Nation's contributors are first-rate. These selections from the 1990s (just one per author) produce (unintentionally, the editors confide) "a unique archive of the issues, values, institutions, and personalities which preoccupied, united and divided, and ultimately defined the independent, democratic left" in that decade. Cornel West remembers Michael Harrington; Deborah W. Meier discusses public school choice; Mike Davis considers Los Angeles' riot/uprising; Paco Ignacio Taibo II discusses the Zapatistas; Susan Faludi asks, "Does Maureen Dowd Have an Opinion?"; Michael Moore wonders, "Is the Left Nuts? (Or Is It Me?)." There's poetry from, among others, W. S. Merwin, Philip Levine, Allen Ginsberg, and Nation regular Calvin Trillin; and illustrations from, among others, Edward Sorel, David Levine, Art Spiegelman, and Gary Trudeau. The Gulf War and the drug war, the collapse of the U.S.S.R. and the impeachment of a president are but a few of the subjects discussed here. Lively, opinionated commentary on issues that matter. Mary Carroll
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