After Henry, Joan Didion, 1992, United States, ESSAYS
"...A piece that explores "the use of other nations as changeable scrims in the theater of domestic politics" begins: "In August of 1986, George Bush, traveling in his role as vice president of the United States and accompanied by his staff, the Secret Service, the traveling press, and a personal camera crew wearing baseball caps reading 'Shooters, Inc.' and working on a $10,000 retainer paid by a Bush PAC called the Fund for America's Future, spent several days in Israel and Jordan." Fascinating and eye-opening, After Henry challenges us to recognize the sometimes messy, sometimes discomfiting reality that lies under the "stories" that have splashed across our newspapers and television screens."
"...A piece that explores "the use of other nations as changeable scrims in the theater of domestic politics" begins: "In August of 1986, George Bush, traveling in his role as vice president of the United States and accompanied by his staff, the Secret Service, the traveling press, and a personal camera crew wearing baseball caps reading 'Shooters, Inc.' and working on a $10,000 retainer paid by a Bush PAC called the Fund for America's Future, spent several days in Israel and Jordan." Fascinating and eye-opening, After Henry challenges us to recognize the sometimes messy, sometimes discomfiting reality that lies under the "stories" that have splashed across our newspapers and television screens."
(E.B., p. 211)