A compendium of more than two hundred classic and modern speeches includes Orson Welles eulogizing Darryl F. Zanuck, George Patton exhorting his D-Day troops, King Edward VIII ...

Examines and provides comments on language trends while tracing the origins of timely words and phrases that discuss such topics as technology, entertainment, and everyday life.

For the past twenty-five years Americans have relied on Pulitzer Prize-winning wordsmith William Safire for their weekly dose of linguistic illumination in The New York Times ...

Presents fifty humorous rules on grammar, usage, and style, covering everything from capitalization and split infinitives to run-on sentences, semi-colons, contractions, the ...

A presidential hopeful has taken a beautiful, vulnerable woman as his mistress, though both are married to others. His rival for the presidency of the United States has even ...

William Safire's invaluable and immensely entertaining Lend Me Your Ears established itself instantly as a classic treasury of the greatest speeches in human history. Selected ...

Contains over 2,500 quotations from famous people of the past and present.

Featuring more than one thousand new, rewritten, and updated entries, this reference on American politics explains current terms in politics, economics, and diplomacy.

More than 2,000 Quotations to Help You Live Your Life. Here's life's big instruction book--a treasury of personal quotations that actually tell you what to do. Proverbs, wise ...