Short Stack morphs into Political Bookworm
Tue, 03/16/2010 - 21:30 — AnonymousShort Stack has transformed into Political Bookworm. As you may have noticed, Short Stack has contained considerable coverage of political books in recent months. We believe strongly in the importance of book-length political writing to inform and educate the public on serious issues of the day. Political Bookworm discusses new books long before they hit the shelves. We continues to have writers contribute guest blogs. Authors of forthcoming books participate in Q & A's about their work. You will find best seller lists -- both for general books and for political books. You will be directed where to see and hear political authors on television, radio and podcasts. Please have a look and leave us your comments, or send us an email at politicalbookworm@washpost.com.
...Poet's Choice by Julie Carr
Thu, 03/11/2010 - 02:55 — AnonymousThis poem is the 23rd "note" in my book, "100 Notes on Violence." At this moment in the sequence I wanted to be very explicit about my intentions and about the source of those intentions. The book grew out of my increasing resistance to representations of and information about domestic, local and intimate violence. As a mother and citizen, I found myself growing less and less able to tolerate images or texts about violence, especially when that violence was aimed at children. Having recently moved to Colorado, I was extremely aware of the Columbine Massacre, and aware of my inability to think about that event and all comparable events directly. This felt like cowardice to me. I felt I needed to find a way, through my work, to confront these fears and resistances and to examine with as much depth and breadth as I could conjure the existence of violence
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Mon, 03/08/2010 - 20:43 — AnonymousPoet's Choice: "Will There Be More Than One 'Questioner'?" by Nick Lantz
Wed, 03/03/2010 - 03:46 — AnonymousThe title of "Will There Be More Than One 'Questioner'?" comes from an interrogator's preparatory checklist in a declassified CIA document from 1983, the "Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual." I came across it while doing research for my book "We Don't Know We Don't Know," which focuses partly on salvaging poetry out of politically degraded language. In clumsily seeking to conceal the manual's actual subject, the euphemism "human resource exploitation" comes off more sinister than "interrogation" (or even "torture") ever could. The manual disavows violence as an interrogation technique, but these disavowals appear in what are clearly later additions, and they are so frequent, and vigorous, that they too become unintentionally self-incriminating. The ironic quotes that appear around "questioner," "questioning" and so forth in the poem follow an identical convention used in the original document, and again, this evasion is full of menace. ("There is nothing mysterious about 'questioning,'" the
...Reagan's blend of stagecraft and statecraft
Thu, 02/25/2010 - 10:30 — AnonymousThe presidential election of 1980 inaugurated the conservative revolution. It also demonstrated the dazzling skill of Ronald Reagan in blending stagecraft with statecraft. Craig Shirley chronicles the 1980 campaign in "Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America." Reagan wasn't alone, however, in understanding the role of stagecraft in politics. Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy also were exemplars - but, in Shirley's view, the latest charismatic occupant of the White House, President Barack Obama, has much to learn from his predecessors. Shirley is president of Shirley & Banister Public Affairs, a conservative marketing firm. GUEST BLOGGER: Craig Shirley Almost 30 years ago to the day, Ronald Reagan stunned the political world by crushing his main opponent for the 1980 GOP presidential nomination, Amb. George H.W. Bush in the New Hampshire primary, winning 50 percent of the vote to Bush's 23 percent. Just that morning, newspapers across
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Wed, 02/24/2010 - 17:27 — AnonymousAs many of you may have noticed, Short Stack has contained considerable coverage of political books in recent months. We at Book World believe strongly in the importance of book-length political writing to inform and educate the public on serious issues of the day. Political books cover an astonishing array of subjects that are part of the American conversation -- these are books not only about the political process: elections, the presidency, partisanship and the like but also about subjects that influence our political debate: national security, globalization, race, health care, justice, education, the environment, women's rights, and much more. The Book World blog has been evolving to provide you with news and analysis of the political book scene. We will soon make this evolution official with a new name and new features that will make the blog into a place where you can discover and debate the latest must-read
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