Overview

This entertaining and informative compilation is chock full of affronts and indignities that have been hurled at politicians, royalty, writers, athletes, lawyers, entertainers, and just about everyone else. Both the source of the invective and its recipient are indicated. This title, originally published in 1980, is available on-demand only.

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Hooks and Kahns gathering of jabs uttered by and at individuals in the public eye is riotously entertaining to browse through, as well as a suitable source of quotes for inclusion or adaptation into a speech or other type of presentation. --Booklist An entertaining and informative compilation. --Maledicta

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Donald D. Hook was professor emeritus of Modern Languages and Literature at Trinity College, in Hartford, Connecticut. Educated at five U.S. universities, he was a widely published author of books and articles on literary subjects, sociology, cultural history, gun control, quotations, and church matters. Lothar Kahn was born in Rehlingen, in the Saarland, when it was part of France. He immigrated to the United States in 1937 and earned a B.A. from the City College of New York and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. In 1946, he joined the faculty of Teachers College of Connecticut, as Central Connecticut State University was then called, as a teacher of French and German. He later branched out to teach philosophy and world literature. Lothar Kahn died in 1990.

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