Safire's New Political Dictionary: The Definitive Guide to the New Language of Politics - Hardcover

Safire, William

 
9780679420682: Safire's New Political Dictionary: The Definitive Guide to the New Language of Politics

Synopsis

Featuring more than one thousand new, rewritten, and updated entries, this timely reference on American politics explains current terms in politics, economics, and diplomacy and includes a new introduction and index. 25,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo.

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Review

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)

About the Author

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 New York City.

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