Lincoln était sexy: Doris Kearns Goodwin

J'aime bien les ouvrage de Doris Kearns Goodwin. Elle se prêtait dernièrement au jeu des comparaisons entre des politiciens d'époques différentes.   Les médias et l'argent au coeur de la réflexion.

 "Listening to Franklin Roosevelt’s fireside chats — he made only 30 in 12 years — became a national pastime. “Saul Bellow used to tell the story of walking down the streets of Chicago and hearing Roosevelt speak from radio after radio, in house after house, all tuned to the same station,” Goodwin said. But today? Today you see moments, glimpses, summaries, roundups and, of course, the talking heads. “Now you just see parts of speeches,” Goodwin said and added ruefully: “And then you see commentators like David and me.”

Goodwin described a Washington of a bygone era where Democrat LBJ spent weekends with Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen. “They didn’t run home every weekend to raise money,” Goodwin said. “It was a club; there was a comity to it.”

 Then Goodwin homed in on the real evil in our current political system. “Money is the poison in our system, and we know it,” she said and then turned to the students in the audience. “If I were you, I would be working on a constitutional amendment to change the effect of money on politics. I would be like Susan B. Anthony on this.”

 http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/doris-kearns-goodwin-lincoln-was-sexy-105447.html?hp=r2