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发表于2024-11-28
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In 1988, Joan Didion began looking at the American political process for The New York Review of Books . What she found was not a mechanism that offered the nation’s citizens a voice in its affairs but one designed by—and for—“that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life.” The eight pieces collected here from The New York Review build, one on the other, to a stunning whole, a portrait of the American political landscape that tells us, devastatingly, how we got where we are today.
In Political Fictions , tracing the dreamwork that was already clear at the time of the first Bush ascendance in 1988, Didion covers the ways in which the continuing and polarizing nostalgia for an imagined America led to the entrenchment of a small percentage of the electorate as the nation’s deciding political force, the ways in which the two major political parties have worked to narrow the electorate to this manageable element, the readiness with which the media collaborated in this process, and, finally and at length, how this mindset led inexorably over the past dozen years to the crisis that was the 2000 election. In this book Didion cuts to the core of the deceptions and deflections to explain and illuminate what came to be called “the disconnect”—and to reveal a political class increasingly intolerant of the nation that sustains it.
Joan Didion’s profound understanding of America’s political and cultural terrain, her sense of historical irony, and the play of her imagination make Political Fictions a disturbing and brilliant tour de force.
书的后半部分剖析了莱温斯基事件政坛和民间的态度,解释这个事件如何深刻影响了后克林顿时代的竞选,如何造成两党不约而同将竞选重点放到value和morality上,并让宗教复辟成为美国主流政治的核心。而事实上,这样的竞选战略只benefit了共和党,民主党这样的做法彻底辜负了克林顿任内留下的杰出经济方面的legacy,他们应当对21世纪美国年轻人对政治和大选失去兴趣,并且导致的政治保守右倾的现状承担极大的责任。
评分从88年到00年大选的速写。身在竞选活动中心的人甚至自己都难以察觉与真实世界的距离。不少处描写都和现在的这场大选(或之前的很多场?)像极了。
评分Joan Didion真是对比她笨的人毫无sympathy
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Political Fictions pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024