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Provocations and Commentaries
W. W. Norton
April 2008
On Sale: April 7, 2008
384 pages
ISBN: 0393066541
EAN: 9780393066548
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
A lucid deconstruction of the politics and public figures
shaping the social, financial, and military disasters of our
times.
This selection of Michael Kinsley's
trenchant editorial writing in Slate (and elsewhere)
since 1995 covers the end of the Clinton era (Monica,
impeachment, etc.) and two terms of George W. Bush (9/11,
the War on Terror, Iraq, etc.).
During this time
Kinsley left Washington for Seattle and founded
Slate, was opinion editor of the Los Angeles
Times, underwent brain surgery for Parkinson's disease,
and had other adventures that are reflected here. Although
mostly about politics, there are articles and essays about
other things, such as the future of newspapers, the
existence of God, and why power women love Law and
Order.
This is the work of a writer at the top of
his form. Kinsley's wit is a weapon that any talk-show host
or elected blowhard should envy and fear, and the reader
will cherish his sense of humor, which enlivens even the
toughest subject matter.
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