William Safire's Books
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The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right TimeFor the past twenty-five years Americans have relied on Pulitzer Prize-winning wordsmith William Safire for their weekly dose of linguistic...Read More
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No Uncertain TermsThere is no wittier, more amiable or more astute word maven than Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist William Safire.For many people, the first item on the...Read More -
ScandalmongerA presidential hopeful has taken a beautiful, vulnerable woman as his mistress, though both are married to others. His rival for the presidency of the...Read More
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Native American Times, October 31, 2009
...do, it is usually, perhaps unintentionally, to denigrate, much in the fashion of a George Will or a William Safire, rest his soul. An Andy Rooney can use the most racist of terms in describing Indians on 60 Minutes without ruffling a white feather. Like...
Daily Targum, October 30, 2009
...Targum columns.” Regrettably, the writer fails in his attempt to emulate the singular style of the late, great William Safire. He takes his source material — Safire’s much-emailed “How to Read a Column” — and futilely attempts to adapt it to...
Holland Sentinel, October 10, 2009
...Last month, the world lost one of its most clever and persistent advocates for proper word usage: William Safire. Long before I knew or cared about him as a political columnist and speech writer, (he penned Vice President Spiro Agnews now famous line...
Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, October 5, 2009
...Writer , dead at 79 Date published: 10/5/2009 WORDS slipped from William Safire's brain, vaulted onto the keyboard, and double-back-flipped into readers' minds, much to their delight. Alas, the New York Times columnist died of pancreatic cancer on Sept....
MSNBC Newsweek, September 30, 2009
...Remembering William Safire, the legendary New York Times columnist...
Post Chronicle, September 29, 2009
...William Safire, the former speechwriter for Richard Nixon who won a Pulitzer Prize for columns on politics and language for The New York Times, died on Sunday, the newspaper said. He...
Kazakhstan News, September 28, 2009
...th September, 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire has died. Mr Safire, who had cancer, died in a Maryland hospice on Sunday. Safire was a New York Times opinion writer for...
Editor & Publisher, September 28, 2009
...NEW YORK Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died Sunday, his assistant said. He was 79. Safire had been diagnosed with cancer and died a hospice in Maryland, said his...
Times of India, September 28, 2009
... William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The New York Times who also wrote novels, books on politics and a Malaprop?s...
Livemint.com, September 28, 2009
...Word power: A file photo of William Safire. The columnist was a pugnacious contrarian who did much of his own reporting, called people liars in print and laced his opinions with outrageous wordplay. Patrick Burns / The...
Cleveland Live, September 28, 2009
...William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for the New York Times who also wrote novels, books on politics and a Malaprop's treasury...
Chicago Daily Herald, September 28, 2009
...In this Dec. 15, 2006, photo, President Bush bestows the Presidential Medal of Freedom to journalist William Safire during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Associated Press file Send To: From: Comments: NEW YORK -- William...
Nine MSN, September 28, 2009
...Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire has died, his assistant said. He was 79. Safire had been diagnosed with cancer and died in a hospice in Maryland on Sunday, said his...
Lakeland Ledger, September 28, 2009
...Ads | Mobile | NEW YORK | Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died Sunday, his assistant said. He was 79. Safire had been diagnosed with cancer and died a hospice in Maryland,...
KABC Los Angeles, September 27, 2009
...In this Dec. 1968 file photo, William Safire, newly appointed special assistant to President-elect Nixon, is seen. Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire has died. He was 79. His...
Africa Leader, September 27, 2009
...Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire has died. Mr Safire, who had cancer, died in a Maryland hospice on Sunday. Safire was a New York Times opinion writer for 30 years. He also...
KIVI-TV, September 27, 2009
...William Safire, the conservative columnist and word warrior who feared no politician or corner of the English language, died Sunday at age 79. The Pulitzer Prize winner died at a hospice...
Telegraph, September 27, 2009
...William Safire, the former speech writer for Richard Nixon who won a Pulitzer Prize writing columns on politics and language for The New York Times, died on Sunday. He was 79...
Cambodian Times, September 27, 2009
...Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire has died. Mr Safire, who had cancer, died in a Maryland hospice on Sunday. Safire was a New York Times opinion writer for 30 years. He also...
Adelaide Now, September 27, 2009
...WILLIAM Safire, the former speechwriter for Richard Nixon who won a Pulitzer Prize for columns on politics and language for died overnight, the newspaper said. He was 79. Safire died at...
New Zealand Herald, September 27, 2009
...NEW YORK - Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died Sunday (local time), his assistant said. He was 79. Safire had been diagnosed with cancer and died in a hospice in Maryland,...
Los Angeles Times, September 27, 2009
...Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died today, his assistant said. Safire, who was 79, had been diagnosed with cancer and died at a hospice in Maryland, assistant Rosemary...
Washington Post, September 27, 2009
...William Safire, 79, conservative political columnist and word maven, died today at a hospice in Rockville, Md., reportedly of pancreatic cancer. Mr. Safire, who won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in...
Hollywood Reporter, September 27, 2009
...NEW YORK -- Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died Sunday, his assistant said. He was 79. Safire had been diagnosed with cancer and died a hospice in Maryland, said his...
Soo Today, September 27, 2009
...Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist and former presidential speech-writer William Safire passed away this morning at a Rockville, Maryland hospice. After winning the 1968 presidential seat, Richard Nixon employed Safire as his primary...
The Australian, September 27, 2009
...WILLIAM Safire, the former speechwriter for Richard Nixon who won a Pulitzer Prize for columns on politics and language for The New York Times, died overnight, the newspaper said. He was...
Lakeland Ledger, September 27, 2009
...Ads | Mobile | NEW YORK | Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died Sunday, his assistant said. He was 79. Safire had been diagnosed with cancer and died a hospice in Maryland,...
Globe and Mail, September 27, 2009
...Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy, Eric Alterman called Safire an institution unto himself. Few insiders doubt that William Safire is the most influential and respected pundit alive, Alterman wrote. His scathing columns on the Carter White House...
Macleans Online, September 27, 2009
...NEW YORK - Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died Sunday, his assistant said. He was 79. Safire had been diagnosed with cancer and died in a hospice in Maryland, said his...
Los Angeles Times, September 27, 2009
...Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died today, his assistant said. Safire, who was 79, had been diagnosed with cancer and died at a hospice in Maryland, assistant Rosemary...
Washington Post, September 27, 2009
...NEW YORK -- Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died Sunday, his assistant said. Safire, who was 79, had been diagnosed with cancer and died at a hospice in Maryland, assistant...
FOXNews.com, September 27, 2009
...NEW YORK ? Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died Sunday, his assistant said. He was 79. Safire had been diagnosed with cancer and died a hospice in Maryland, said his...
Reuters via Yahoo!, September 27, 2009
...NEW YORK (Reuters) William Safire, the former speechwriter for Richard Nixon who won a Pulitzer Prize for columns on politics and language for The New York Times, died on Sunday, the newspaper said. He...
Los Angeles Times, September 27, 2009
...Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire has died. He was 79. His assistant Rosemary Shields says Safire died this morning at a Maryland hospice. She says he had been diagnosed with...
DOSE, September 27, 2009
...New York -- William Safire, the former speechwriter for Richard Nixon who won a Pulitzer Prize for columns on politics and language for The New York Times, died Sunday, the newspaper said. He was...
Detroit News, September 27, 2009
...New York -- Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died Sunday, his assistant said. He was 79. Safire had been diagnosed with cancer and died a hospice in Maryland, said his...
Reflector.com, September 27, 2009
...NEW YORK ? Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died Sunday, his assistant said. He was 79. Safire had been diagnosed with cancer and died a hospice in Maryland, said his...
Suite101.com, September 21, 2009
...It captures the shortcomings, subtleties, and possibilities of modern journalism. According to former journalist and presidential speech writer William Safire, "Don't ever think of becoming a reporter, editor, columnist or influential blogger without...
Broadway World, September 2, 2009
...and poached oysters!' into a national catch-phrase. Roger Rosenblatt is the acclaimed author of essays, books and plays. William Safire of The New York Times wrote that his work represents 'some of the most profound and stylish writing in America today.'...
Suite101.com, August 16, 2009
...included a few members of Congress, as well as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, columnist William Safire, ABC news reporter Martha Raddatz, and . . . Jimmy Buffett? While it might seem that Jimmy Buffett would be more at home on stage at a...
Boston Globe, August 15, 2009
...it is still widely shunned. Widely, perhaps, but far from universally. In a 1994 New York Times column, William Safire explained that ways was a relic of early American usage, one that remains popular up and down the Eastern Seaboard and out toward the...
Boston Globe, June 7, 2009
...in January after one last go at persuading readers of the supreme importance of the placement of only. William Safire does less scolding every year, and it was never truly his shtick; he defended the sentence-adverb use of hopefully way back in 1979,...
Washington Post, May 10, 2009
...First, a swanky release party at the Council on Foreign Relations's gleaming digs on F Street, where William Safire handled introductions while military, government and media types indulged in free-flowing wine, ginger-grilled salmon, orecchiette with...
Washington Post, May 9, 2009
...First, a swanky release party at the Council on Foreign Relations's gleaming digs on F Street, where William Safire handled introductions while military, government and media types indulged in free-flowing wine, ginger-grilled salmon, orecchiette with...
Sackville Tribune Post, May 8, 2009
...column is one that causes the reader to throw down the newspaper in a peak of fit.? - William Safire (1929), American author and columnist. ?The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he was born.? - Dr....
Mail & Guardian Online, March 24, 2009
...and people will be reading it for a century learning about the roots of the American language,' said William Safire, who frequently cites the dictionary in his On Language column in the New York Times Magazine. 'It shows the richness and diversity of our...
Gulf News, March 24, 2009
...and people will be reading it for a century learning about the roots of the American language,' said William Safire, who frequently cites the dictionary in his On Language column in The New York Times Magazine. 'It shows the richness and diversity of our...
Jackson Sun, March 23, 2009
...and people will be reading it for a century, learning about the roots of the American language,' said William Safire, who frequently cites the dictionary in his 'On Language' column in The New York Times Magazine. 'It shows the richness and diversity of...
Lansing State Journal, March 23, 2009
...and people will be reading it for a century learning about the roots of the American language,' said William Safire, who frequently cites the dictionary in his 'On Language' column in The New York Times Magazine. 'It shows the richness and diversity of...
Winston-Salem Journal, March 23, 2009
...and people will be reading it for a century learning about the roots of the American language,' said William Safire, who frequently cites the dictionary in his 'On Language' column in The New York Times Magazine. 'It shows the richness and diversity of...
The Sun News, March 23, 2009
...and people will be reading it for a century learning about the roots of the American language,' said William Safire, who frequently cites the dictionary in his 'On Language' column in The New York Times Magazine. 'It shows the richness and diversity of...
Deseret Morning News, March 23, 2009
...and people will be reading it for a century learning about the roots of the American language,' said William Safire, who frequently cites the dictionary in his 'On Language' column in The New York Times Magazine. 'It shows the richness and diversity of...
Globe and Mail, March 23, 2009
...and people will be reading it for a century learning about the roots of the American language,' said William Safire, who frequently cites the dictionary in his 'On Language' column in The New York Times Magazine. 'It shows the richness and diversity of...
TwinCities.com, March 23, 2009
...and people will be reading it for a century learning about the roots of the American language,' said William Safire, who frequently cites the dictionary in his 'On Language' column in the New York Times Magazine. 'It shows the richness and diversity of...
Wichita Eagle, March 23, 2009
...and people will be reading it for a century learning about the roots of the American language,' said William Safire, who frequently cites the dictionary in his 'On Language' column in the New York Times Magazine. 'It shows the richness and diversity of...
ABC News, March 22, 2009
...and people will be reading it for a century learning about the roots of the American language,' said William Safire, who frequently cites the dictionary in his 'On Language' column in The New York Times Magazine. 'It shows the richness and diversity of...
AllAfrica.com, March 16, 2009
...THE 'nattering nabobs of negativity' is a phrase that was coined by William Safire, speechwriter to then US vice president, Spiro Agnew to refer to the media, particularly its inclination to accentuate the negative over the positive. Despite the warts...
New Yorker, March 12, 2009
...and also a hazard of early success. Douthat?s path to a Times column is as unusual as William Safire?s, who had been a Nixon speechwriter before joining the Op-Ed page. Most columnists start out as reporters and earn their right to an opinion after...
McAlester News-Capital, February 4, 2009
...Joseph J. Ellis, presented by Dr. Douglas Watson of OBU; ? Thursday, March 26 ?Scandalmonger,? a novel by William Safire, presented by Carolyn Larsen of the U.S. District Court, Western District of Oklahoma; ? Thursday, April 16 ?Adams vs....
Detroit News, January 24, 2009
...John King. 'But we also get the occasional psycho. And lots of intellectuals. Course, both Jay Leno and William Safire also have been customers.' Apart from the apparent chance to hobnob with such luminaries, buying used books yields rewards that no...
Regina Leader-Post, December 31, 2008
...the word of the year, and later crowned 2008's hottest term by New York Times language sage William Safire, frugalista is defined as â??a person who lives a frugal lifestyle but stays fashionable and healthy by swapping clothes, buying second-hand,...
Guardian Unlimited, December 30, 2008
...was how Spiro Agnew, Richard Nixon's veep, dismissed the chattering classes. Ironically the phrase was coined by William Safire, Nixon's speechwriter and an intellectual if ever there was one. Commenting on Bush's reading material, Richard Cohen of the...
memeorandum, September 27, 2009
...Robert D. McFadden / New York Times : William Safire, Nixon Speechwriter and Times Columnist, Is Dead at 79 — William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The New...
Politics Daily, September 27, 2009
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BitsBlog, September 27, 2009
...The New York Times is reporting: William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize -winning political columnist for The New York Times who also wrote novels, books on politics and a Malaprop...
Booman Tribune, August 30, 2009
...that is what they have become. The New York Times made some of the same mistakes in publishing William Safire, Judy Miller, and Michael Gordon. But the Times' editorial page retained their integrity. The Washington Post cannot be trusted in any facet of...
¿Chicano y que?, August 25, 2009
...New Millennium Dictionary of English .) Some non-native Angelenos decided long ago to pin it on Los Angeles. As William Safire explained in a New York Times essay: “La-La Land is a play on the initials L.A., perhaps influenced by Lotos-land in...
Diary of a Crossword Fiend, August 8, 2009
...called "How Fail Went From Verb to Interjection" and it is 85 times more current and entertaining than William Safire's columns. I always like Safire's summer-vacation substitutes so much more than Safire. Why doesn't he retire already?) 32A. [Cheesy...
Writing Boots, June 8, 2009
...wrote. Same went for James Fallows when he wrote for Carter, and to the best of my knowledge William Safire and company didn't claim credit (where it may have been due) for Richard Nixon's utterances. Do I read with great interest what White House...
Waterford Times, May 27, 2009
...claimed Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as well as former New York Times conservative columnist William Safire as influences. “I’m also influenced by Alexander Hamilton,” he said. Benedict also speculated on whether any...
Britannica Blog, May 4, 2009
...In a recent Sunday column William Safire notes that books about words and writing have proliferated of late and seem to be more popular than ever. (Hat tip: informat) This appears, on the face of it...
KnoxViews -, April 9, 2009
...us at one time or another have envied such people. I’m reminded of pithy words from commentator William Safire.“Nixon looked down on the Kennedys with utmost envy.” So true. And yet, J.T. and Roland Cole are rendered more real than even the...
Education & Homeschool News, March 22, 2009
...people will be reading it for a century learning about the roots of the American language," said William Safire, who frequently cites the dictionary in his "On Language" column in The New York Times Magazine. "It shows the richness and diversity of our...
HogwartsProfessor.com, March 18, 2009
...Harry Potter succeeds on my scale and Lewis’ except with respect to longevity. * Certain critics such as William Safire have argue that the Potter series will never be viewed as anything more than children’s fiction. Despite the criticism, is the...
Daily Writing Tips, March 11, 2009
...on “fused participle” in the frame) American Heritage Book of English Usage Columbia Guide to Standard American English William Safire Copyright by Daily Writing Tips . Participles Fused and Otherwise...
Texas Liberal, March 10, 2009
...The new video on the blog is called Reading Malcolm X In An Old Black Cemetery. It runs just over two minutes and 30 seconds. I filmed this in Houston’s College Memorial Park Cemetery. This cemetery, now in some disrepair, began in 1896. It was...
A Cozy Nook to Read In, February 12, 2009
...the Christmas books, and found myself smack-dab next to the linguistics books, so I also picked up two William Safire "On Language" volumes I don't remember reading, Quoth the Maven and Spread the Word . Yum...nice fat books about word usage! As I...
Omnivoracious, February 11, 2009
...mid-Tuesday OMM: tech difficulties on the home connection last night...] New York Times : Sunday book review cover: William Safire on the deluge of Lincoln books: "A publishing industry chestnut is that the three fields readers are most interested in are...
The Millions, February 8, 2009
...of itself." Soft Skull's Richard Nash on how to publish in a recession at Conversational Reading . William Safire on "the deluge of books occasioned by the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth." Millions reader Scott says, "I wish the Book Review...
Ask MetaFilter, February 6, 2009
...proofreading. Consequently, I've been thinking about Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time by William Safire , but I don't know if he already owns a copy. I also considered Safire's Political Dictionary , which was new last year and which he is...
troy, February 5, 2009
...Truss is an entertaining, well-read scold in a culture that could use more scolding. USA Today Truss is William Safire crossed with John Cleeses Basil Fawlty. Entertainment Weekly Lynne Truss has done the English-speaking world a huge service. The...
hake blog, January 17, 2009
...Truss is an entertaining, well-read scold in a culture that could use more scolding. USA Today Truss is William Safire crossed with John Cleeses Basil Fawlty. Entertainment Weekly Lynne Truss has done the English-speaking world a huge service. The...
Flopping Aces, January 14, 2009
...lose the “nucular” war. In his “On Language” column in the New York Times Magazine in May 2001, William Safire lamented that, besides Bush, at least three other presidents—Eisenhower, Carter, and Clinton—have mangled the word. In fact,...
rocky, January 12, 2009
...entertaining, well-read scold in a culture that could use more scolding.” Â- USA Today ”Truss is William Safire crossed with John CleeseÂ’s Basil Fawlty.” Â- Entertainment Weekly ”Lynne Truss has done the English-speaking world a...
jazmine, January 11, 2009
...its uses and abuses, its absurdities and ever-shifting nuances, its power to confound, obscure, and occasionally to inspire, William Safire is the language maven we most readily turn to for clarity, guidance, and penetrating, sometimes lacerating, wit....
Diary of an Arts Pastor, December 29, 2008
...going on." And me is crazy. And forget about the who/whom deal. It's a lost cause. William Safire , whose column "On Language" ran for over twenty- five years in the New York Times Magazine, tells this funny but truly sad story about Mick Jagger at Super...
