Safire's New Political Dictionary The Definitive Guide to the New Language of Politics
by Safire, William ; [SIGNED] ; [Rowland Evans]
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0679420681
- ISBN 13
- 9780679420682
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About This Item
New York: Random House. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1993. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. xxvii, (1), 930 pages; Clean and tight in original binding in very nice dustajcket. Inscribed and signed by the author on halftitle "For Kay & Rowly / who create / the lingo / Bill Safire New York Times Book Review calls Safire "Perhaps the best political columnist at work today and the perfect political lexicographer." 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. PROVENANCE: Rowland Evans was a provocative newspaper columnist, commentator and author who antagonized liberal politicians and championed conservative causes. He left Yale and enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 during World War II and was discharged in 1944 because of malaria. In 1963, Mr. Evans and Mr. Novak began writing ''Inside Report,'' an insider's view of politics that was published four times a week until Mr. Evans retired in 1993. Mr. Evans and Robert Novak began their work as columnists in the early 1960's, a time when newspaper columnists wielded outsize influence in national politics. The pair pioneered in transferring that influence to the medium of cable television with the political discussion program ''Evans & Novak'' -- carried on CNN from that cable network's beginning. Rowland Evans and his wife Kay (Katherine Winton Evans), also a respected writer and editor, were mainstays on the Washington social scene, hosting many memorable gatherings in their handsome Georgetown house -- to which flocked influential and remarkable people drawn from journalism, politics and general society over the decades from the 1960s to the 2000s. Both Evans and Novak became more predictably conservative over the years, particularly during the Reagan years. Reportedly, both columnists voted for JFK in 1960 and for Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Evans earned a place on Richard Nixon's infamous "Enemies List." Novak reported that Evans had JFK as a guest for the first dinner party the latter attended as President Elect. Kay and Rowland Evans has a particularly close friendship with Robert F. Kennedy, his wife Ethel and their family. .
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- Bookseller
- Antiquarian Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43390
- Title
- Safire's New Political Dictionary The Definitive Guide to the New Language of Politics
- Author
- Safire, William ; [SIGNED] ; [Rowland Evans]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0679420681
- ISBN 13
- 9780679420682
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 8vo.
- Keywords
- Political Language, Political Science, American Politics, Dictionaries & Thesauruses, Journalism, Rowland Evans
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana and American History; Political Science; Linguistics; Journalism;
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