Featuring more than one thousand new, rewritten, and updated entries, this reference on American politics explains current terms in politics, economics, and diplomacy.
William Safire Books
December 17, 1929 – September 27, 2009
William Safire was an American author, columnist, and journalist, best known as a long-time political columnist for The New York Times. His "On Language" column in The New York Times Magazine explored popular etymology, new or unusual usages, and other language-related topics. Safire possessed a unique talent for dissecting the intricacies of language and its connection to politics and society. His writing was valued for its insight and clarity.
An anthology of two hundred of history's outstanding speeches, arranged by theme and occasion.
Safire guides us through the labyrinth of computerese, calls for the revival of the old-fashioned "haberdasher", and interprets the trendy "rents", "squids", and "swangst" (parents, weaklings, and anxiety), in this new collection of his ever-popular "On Language" columns.
In the mid-1980's, the forty-first President of the United States is blinded in an assassination attempt and must cope with an international crisis and with domestic pressure demanding his resignation.
In Love with Norma Loquendi
- 349 pages
- 13 hours of reading
The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist describes his lifelong fascination with Norma Loquendi--common speech--in a collection of columns that celebrates the mysteries and continual evolution of the English language. 15,000 first printing.
Selected from 17 million prints preserved in the archives of The New York Times , the spectacular photographs in this book provide a spellbinding sample from the rich archive that is the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of a great newspaper. Revealed is the extraordinary and omnivorous breadth of photography's vivid pictures of both World Wars; of presidents, mayors, dictators and celebrities; of Beatles fans and Halley's comet; of victims and perpetrators, riots and disasters; of Bill Bradley on the court and Willie Mays sliding into home--and a great many more. Underlying them all is the gripping immediacy that makes news photography not only an indispensable presence in the daily paper but a vital part of history. This book includes an illustrated chronology that traces the evolution of the technology and business of news photography, with special attention to the role of The New York Times and to the recent rise of digital technologies in newspaper production. Originally published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
