Edition:
Enlarged, Up-to-date edition of "The New Language of Politics"
Publisher:
Ballantine Books
Published:
1980
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
16438507673
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Fair. Cover is shelf-worn with a single hole-punch on front cover; curved spine, and some light spotting, but text is free of markings. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Audience: General/trade. Includes: Index and "Bibliography & Research" section.
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Very Good. First edition copy. Collectible-Very Good. Very Good dust jacket. From the library of American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter William Safire. (political science, reference)
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($15.95 price intact). Published by Random House, 1978. Octavo. Black cloth over white boards stamped in gold. Signed and inscribed on half title page. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear, nicks, and small tears. Book placed in custom acetate protector.845 pages. ISBN: 0394502612. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
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Fair. 1-inch tear in the dust jacket and into the spine. xxx, 845, [5] pages. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Stamp on fep. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Tear/hole in DJ spine and into the book's spine. Includes bibliography and index Explains the origin of each term, how and by whom and for what purposes it has been used or twisted, as well as its perceived and real significance. Revised and updated, with scores of completely new entries added to produce an indispensable guide to the political language being used and abused in America today. Readers will come away not only with a fuller understanding of particular words but also a richer knowledge of how politics works, and fails to work, in America. Written by William Safire, the language maven we most readily turn to for clarity, guidance, and penetrating, and lacerating wit. The New Language of Politics (1968), developed into what Zimmer called Safire's "magnum opus, " Safire's Political Dictionary. William Lewis Safir (December 17, 1929-September 27, 2009), better known as William Safire, was an author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He was a long-time syndicated political columnist for The New York Times and the author of "On Language" in The New York Times Magazine, a column on popular etymology, new or unusual usages, and other language-related topics from its inception. This widely acclaimed study of the words and phrases that make up the language of American politics has now been completely revised and greatly expanded, bringing a total of almost half a million words. To lexicographers, the era of the Watergate vocabulary was a Golden Age of Political Coinage--bringing words like Cover-Up, Stonewalling, Deep-Six, and Twisting Slowly, Slowly in the Wind into the language. This latest edition follow the emergence of the latest-isms--Racism, Elitism, and Sexism--and tracks the origin of Pie in the Sky to labor legend Joe Hill. With wit and scholarship, columnist Safire defines and explores the origins of term that have burst into the American language through politics.