The Washington Book: How To Read Politics And Politicians

  • Autor: Carlos Lozada
  • Narrador: Carlos Lozada
  • Editor: Simon & Schuster
  • Duración: 12:49:57
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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.

Capítulos

  • 001 TheWashingtonBook Open

    Duración: 34s
  • 002 TheWashingtonBook Quote AuthorsNote

    Duración: 03min
  • 003 TheWashingtonBook Introduction HowToReadWashington

    Duración: 28min
  • 004 TheWashingtonBook PartI Leading Chapter1 TheMemoirGeorgeHWBushCouldHaveWritten

    Duración: 25min
  • 005 TheWashingtonBook Chapter2 TheSelf-ReferentialPresidencyofBarackObama

    Duración: 18min
  • 006 TheWashingtonBook Chapter3 TheChoicesofBarackObama

    Duración: 16min
  • 007 TheWashingtonBook Chapter4 TheExaminedLifeofBarackObama

    Duración: 14min
  • 008 TheWashingtonBook Chapter5 TheLastThroesofDickCheney

    Duración: 09min
  • 009 TheWashingtonBook Chapter6 HillaryClintonsOnlyManifesto

    Duración: 12min
  • 010 TheWashingtonBook Chapter7 TheEvergreenHillaryClinton

    Duración: 16min
  • 011 TheWashingtonBook Chapter8 HowtoHateHillaryClintonEspeciallyIfYouAlreadyDo

    Duración: 14min
  • 012 TheWashingtonBook Chapter9 TheCollectedWorksofDonaldTrump

    Duración: 12min
  • 013 TheWashingtonBook Chapter10 DonaldTrumpandtheFictionalAmericanDictator

    Duración: 18min
  • 014 TheWashingtonBook Chapter11 AmericanPresidentsGettheScandalsTheyDeserve

    Duración: 16min
  • 015 TheWashingtonBook Chapter12 MeettheTrumps

    Duración: 09min
  • 016 TheWashingtonBook Chapter13 ThreeWaystoWriteAboutDonaldTrump

    Duración: 16min
  • 017 TheWashingtonBook Chapter14 ThePrematureRedemptionofMikePence

    Duración: 17min
  • 018 TheWashingtonBook Chapter15 TheLuckofJoeBiden

    Duración: 09min
  • 019 TheWashingtonBook Chapter16 TheFalseChoicesofKamalaHarris

    Duración: 09min
  • 020 TheWashingtonBook Chapter17 RonDeSantisandHisEnemies

    Duración: 12min
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