Matters of State

by Hamburger, Philip

• ISBN13: 9781582432465
• ISBN10: 1582432465
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-16
• Publisher: Counterpoint

Summary

In Matters of State Philip Hamburger, president-watcher and Reporter at Large for The New Yorker, collects his pieces on a beat he has made his own -- American political life. This collection of essays, chosen from sixty years of writing, is an original and refreshingly nonpartisan chronicle of American twentieth century politics. Matters of State is Hamburger's testament, both humorous and serious, to the glorious diversity of America's political life. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Philip Hamburger has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1939

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xv
Prologue: Random Notes on Washington, D.C.	p. xvii
The Great Judge [Learned Hand] 1946	p. 1
Patience and Fortitude [Fiorello LaGuardia] 1943	p. 13
Friends Talking in the Night [William O'Dwyer] 1946	p. 16
The Idea is Everything [Trygve Lie] 1947	p. 27
Sculling on the Schuylkill [Republican Convention] 1948	p. 31
HQ. [Thomas Dewey] 1948	p. 35
Ball [Truman Inauguration] 1949	p. 39
Mr. Secretary [Dean Acheson] 1949	p. 42
Please Clear the Aisles [GOP Convention] 1952	p. 77
Back to Chicago [Democratic Convention] 1952	p. 81
Long Wait [Dwight Eisenhower] 1953	p. 85
Man from Wisconsin [Joseph McCarthy] 1954	p. 89
Brain [Eisenhower election] 1956	p. 93
The Mayor [Robert Wagner] 1957	p. 97
Lonely Day [Kennedy election] 1960	p. 101
Great Day [Johnson Inauguration] 1965	p. 104
First Nixon Inaugural [Richard Nixon] 1969	p. 108
Hand on Cardozo [Learned Hand] 1970
Mass in Time of War [Nixon's second Inauguration] 1973
Carter Inauguration [Carter] 1977
First Reagan Inauguration [Reagan] 1981
We Have Nothing to Fear... [FDR retrospective] 1983	p. 146
Quadrennial [Bush Inauguration] 1989	p. 151
One Man's Vote [Clinton election] 1992	p. 155
Clinton Inauguration [Clinton] 1993	p. 158
Vermeer Time [Postscript] 1996	p. 164
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