William Safire, Author Henry Holt & Company $9.94 (357p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0606-3
In this new collection drawn from his ""On Language'' column for the New York Times, Safire entertainingly discusses the proper use of which and that, the pronunciation of junta and many other issues of language. PW called this ``a must-read for...
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William Safire, Author Random House (NY) $25 (349p) ISBN 978-0-679-42386-7
In case you didn't know, norma loquendi is Latin for ``the everyday voice of the native speaker.'' In this ninth collection of his ``On Language'' columns, Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist Safire discusses attitude (Norman Mailer has too...
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William Safire, Author Random House (NY) $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-42324-9
With his usual playful exactitude, the popular New York Times columnist considers such matters as the odious 'n' phenomenon (as in shake 'n' bake); the overuse of certain words and phrases (feckless, on the cusp); the original meaning of such odd...
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William Safire, Author Random House (NY) $24 (451p) ISBN 978-0-679-43447-4
With nary a fistfight, chase or exchange of gunfire, the versatile Safire (Full Disclosure) fashions an engrossing post-Cold War thriller in which spies, bureaucrats and the media raise the trading of disinformation to an art form. Perpetually...
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William Safire, Author Random House (NY) $23 (304p) ISBN 978-0-679-41755-2
In the biblical Book of Job, an upright man suffers for no apparent reason and later reconciles himself with the God whose fairness he questioned. A paean to patience? Hardly, maintains Safire, who interprets Job's central lesson to be that we are...
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William Safire, Author Doubleday Books $25 (402p) ISBN 978-0-385-41300-8
In this seventh collection of his playful, witty, instructive ``On Language'' syndicated columns, Safire again reprints letters from members of the Gotcha Gang and the Nitpickers' League, and other readers who have their own two cents to add. Among...
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William Safire, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (447p) ISBN 978-0-385-41299-5
In this sixth collection of his syndicated ``On Language'' columns, Safire deals wittily, playfully and, above all, instructively with thorny linguistic issues. He takes to task writers who use the passive voice, elitists who grimly stick to ``dicta'
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William Safire, Author . Crown $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-609-60947-7
This 12th collection from Pulitzer Prize–winning political columnist Safire's "On Language" column (in the New York Times Magazine
since 1979) proves that there is no wittier, more gracious stickler for correct usage and grammar.
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William Safire, Author Doubleday Books $24.95 (1125p) ISBN 978-0-385-15903-6
Do national security concerns supersede guarantees of individual liberty? Does strict adherence to the principles of freedom prevent a free government from defending itself effectively? Does the minority have the right to dissolve a democracy? Was...
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William Safire, Author Crown Publishers $22.5 (357p) ISBN 978-0-8129-1324-8
In this fifth collection of ``On Language'' pieces, the New York Times columnist again provides a forum for readers who wish to discuss matters further. Many of Safire's columns evoke vigorous response, such as the one on President Reagan's...
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William Safire, Author St. Martin's Press $6.99 (406p) ISBN 978-0-312-96156-5
""Safire proves himself a master dissembler,"" wrote PW of his third spy novel from the Pulitzer-winning word czar. (Apr.)
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William Safire, Author Random House (NY) $27.5 (416p) ISBN 978-0-679-42387-4
You needn't have pondered the difference between formalists and notionalists or stayed awake wondering why English speakers often substitute a periphrastic modal phrase for the simple subjunctive to appreciate Safire's latest collection of ""On...
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William Safire, Author Simon & Schuster $27 (496p) ISBN 978-0-684-86719-9
Grammar maven, Pulitzer Prize-winner, novelist (Freedom) and erudite political columnist Safire delivers a sprawling, fact-based if somewhat stiffly written novel that will acquaint readers with several of the nation's first political scandals. In...
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William Safire, Author . Norton $13.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-393-32723-6
There are only so many ways to denounce the double negative, and Safire hasn't discovered a new one. This slim style guide rehashes that not uncommon mistake along with 49 other equally obvious bloopers, which Safire boils down to short phrases...
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William Safire, Author . Simon & Schuster $27 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4244-8
Safire has published more than a dozen, often bestselling, collections (No Uncertain Terms
, etc.) of his acerbic weekly columns on the English language. In his crisply witty commentaries, he does more than elucidate the origins of slang or correct...
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William Safire, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4243-1
For over two decades, Safire's "On Language" column for
the New York Times Magazine
has made him probably the most widely read commentator on the English language today, and he has turned those columns into more than a dozen books (Let
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William Safire, Author, Leonard Safir, With Simon & Schuster $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-67536-3
Unlike most leadership how-tos, this one by New York Times columnist Safire and his brother (co-anthologists of Words of Wisdom and Good Advice ) bypasses conventional tricks of the trade and so-called secrets of success in favor of aphorisms. Many...
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William Safire, Author, Leonard Safir, Editor, Leonard Safire, With Holiday House $8.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-73292-9
Virgil, Churchill, Einstein, Sam Snead and Joan Rivers are quoted on the subject of leadership. ``These kernels of wisdom comprise a provocative sampling of the know-how of past and present intellectual giants and lesser mortals,'' PW determined. (Fe
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