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Safire's Political Dictionary
William . Ed(S): Safire
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Description for Safire's Political Dictionary
Paperback. For anyone who wants to cut through the verbal haze that surrounds so much of American political discourse, Safire offers a work of scholarship, wit, and resolute bipartisanship. Editor(s): Safire, William. Num Pages: 896 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GBC; JP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1246.
When it comes to the vagaries of language in American politics, its uses and abuses, its absurdities and ever-shifting nuances, its power to confound, obscure, and occasionally to inspire, William Safire is the language maven we most readily turn to for clarity, guidance, and penetrating, sometimes lacerating, wit. Safire's Political Dictionary is a stem-to-stern updating and expansion of the Language of Politics, which was first published in 1968 and last revised in 1993, long before such terms as Hanging Chads, 9/11 and the War on Terror became part of our everyday vocabulary. Nearly every entry in that renowned work ... Read more
When it comes to the vagaries of language in American politics, its uses and abuses, its absurdities and ever-shifting nuances, its power to confound, obscure, and occasionally to inspire, William Safire is the language maven we most readily turn to for clarity, guidance, and penetrating, sometimes lacerating, wit. Safire's Political Dictionary is a stem-to-stern updating and expansion of the Language of Politics, which was first published in 1968 and last revised in 1993, long before such terms as Hanging Chads, 9/11 and the War on Terror became part of our everyday vocabulary. Nearly every entry in that renowned work ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
896
Condition
New
Number of Pages
896
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195340617
SKU
V9780195340617
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99-47
About William . Ed(S): Safire
William Safire began his writing career as a speechwriter in the Nixon Administration, became a columnist with the New York Times--as its resident token conservative--and for many years wrote a weekly "On Language" column in the New York Times magazine. His many books include Lend Me Your Ears, How Not to Write, Scandalmonger, and Wit and Wisdom. He lives in ... Read more
Reviews for Safire's Political Dictionary
An authoritative collection of whistle-stopping campaign slogans and vicious slings and arrows of partisan attacks that stretches all the way back to the Founding Fathers.
Newsweek
Newsweek