Victor Navasky, Convention Junkie »
Posted By JamesMarcus 1 year, 3 months ago in NewsIn the Noh theater of American politics, the party convention may be the most ritualized element of them all. It has been decades since rival contenders actually went toe-to-toe in front of the party faithful. The gladiatorial vibe is gone. In its place, we have an increasingly slick sequence of speeches, musical interludes, and Horatio-Alger-flavored videos (although Ted Kennedy's, filmed by no less than Ken Burns, had to detour around the usual rags-to-riches theme, which even George W. Bush mined back in 1988). Still, convention fever can be strangely contagious. One wonders if this year will be different--more spontaneous, more meaningful, more real. (Even more fun would be welcome.) For an answer, we turned to Victor Navasky, Publisher Emeritus of The Nation and a confessed "convention junkie" who has attended every Democratic wingding since 1956. (You can check out his Nation convention blog.)
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James Marcus is a writer, translator, critic, and editor. He is the author of Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut and ...
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