Scandalmonger: a Novel - Hardcover

Safire, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684867192 ISBN 13: 9780684867199

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2000

Synopsis

In a fictional exploration of America's early political scandals, James Thomson Callender, a muckraking journalist, reveals scandals in the lives of both Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson.

About this title

Review:

"Bottomlessly researched, passionately argued, Safire's book roars with the paradoxical energy written into the Constitution". -- Chicago Tribune

About the Author:

William Safire has for the past quarter century written a twice-weekly political column for The New York Times, for which he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. In addition, as the word maven in the Sunday New York Times Magazine, he is the most widely read writer on the subject of the English language. A former speechwriter in the Nixon White House, he is the author of twenty-four books, including Safire's New Political Dictionary, the speech anthology Lend Me Your Ears, and the bestselling historical novel about Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, Freedom.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0684867192
• ISBN 13: 9780684867199
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496