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Please Don't Remain Calm Provocations and Commentaries

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ISBN-10: 0393066541

ISBN-13: 9780393066548

Edition: 2008

Authors: Michael Kinsley

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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 inSlate(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 foundedSlate, was opinion editor of theLos 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…    
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Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Introduction
1995-1999
Long Sentence
Confessions of a Buckraker
EDITORIAL: A Dangerous Medium
Slate: A Policy Statement
Bill Clinton's Browser
In Defense of Matt Drudge
Lies, Damned Lies, and Impeachment
The Trouble with Scoops
Easy Answers
Internet Envy
Go to Hell
2000
Six Degrees of America Online
McCain's High Horse
Republicans for Hillary
The Secret Shame of the Professional Politician
McCain for Veep: It's Not Too Late!
It's an Outrage (Never Mind What)
Frankly, My Dear
Voters to Decide Election
My Plan's Better than Your Plan
The Emperor's New Brain
Fun with Numbers
Democracy Is Approximate: Live with It
No Contest
W and Justice
Equal Protection of Whom? From What?
Reasonable People Can Differ?
2001
God Bless You And...
Reagan's Record
Reagan's Record II
O'Reilly among the Snobs
The Mystery of the Departing Guests
Confessions of a McCain-Feingold Criminal
It's Not Just the Internet
Triumph of the Right-Wing Dorks
Trent Lott's Stages of Grief
Pandora's Cable Box
Shining C
Equality at the Airport, I
What Is Terrorism?
New York Becomes Seattle
An Agenda for Victory
Is Disappearing
Osama Done Told Me
The Genius of Ari Fleischer
Forgetting Afghanistan
In Defense of Denial
2002
Listening to Our Inner Ashcroft
The Goldberg Variations
Are Conservatives Brainier?
Davos for Beginners
What Is Terrorism, Continued
Social Hypochondria
Equality at the Airport, II
The Justice's Wife's Tale
An Ode to Managers
Lying in Style
Some Kind Words for Cardinal Law
This Throne of Kings
The Hindsight Saga
Blame the Accountant
King George
Disabilities and Inabilities
It's Good Enough
Who Wants This War?
Government by Osmosis
What Time Is It?
Ours Not to Reason Why
The Secret Vice of Power Women
Curse You, Robert Caro!
Computers Go Too Far
Why Innocent People Confess
How Reaganomics Became Rubinomics
Lott's Adventures in Gaffeland
2003
Pious Pair
Morally Unserious
Desert Shields
J'Accuse, Sort Of
Unauthorized Entry
Unsettled
Bush's War
Bill Bennett's Bad Bet
The Fabulist
Sympathy for the New York Times
Supreme Court Fudge
Abolish Marriage
Who Is Buried in Bush's Speech?
At Least Say You're Sorry
Just Supposin'
Filter Tips
Taking Bush Personally
The Religious Superiority Complex
Attack Geography
When Good News Is Bad News
2004
Novak Agonistes
Blind, Deaf, and Lame
"I'm Not a Quitter!"
Take This Column, Please
Paradise Lost
The Trouble with Optimism
A Good Editorial
The Case against George W. Bush
Social Security Privatization Won't Work
2005
The Century's Greatest Love Story
No Smoking Gun
Niger-Scooter-Plame-Gate
How Conservative Is "Too Conservative"?
Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner?
Cheney Weighs In
The New Corruption
2006
Wendy
The Future of Newspapers
Give Me Liberty or Let Me Think about It
Why Lawyers Are Liars
The Ayatollah Joke Book
What's Your Theory?
M1 and Me
The Twilight of Objectivity
Win a Date with E. J. Dionne
Above the Law
Please Don't Remain Calm
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Yrotciv in Iraq
War and Embryos
2007
In God, Distrust
We Try Harder (but What's the Point?)
How Many Divisions Has the Congress?
Index