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Author: Grant Barrett
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 13.00cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 19.60cm
Weight: 0.336kg
ISBN: 9780195304473
ISBN 10: 0195304470
Pages: 322
Publication Date: 08 June 2006
Audience:
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""An entertaining and informed lexicon of 600 words and phrases describing both current and past political activities and the politicos who made them happen...a most useful state-of-the-slang compendium.""--Library Journal ""A handy phrase-book to help us understand the yammering of the Beltway's chatterati.""--Wall Street Journal ""Those seriously concerned with the vitality of our wonky Beltway blather may want to skip the next agriculture-subsidy roundtable to train their bifocals on ""Hatchet Jobs and Hardball"".... There, with some imagination, you can freshen your lexicon with some forgotten or fairly obscure, but nevertheless serviceable, bits of political argot. Impress your fellow sheeple!""--Tom Kuntz, The New York Times ""Word lovers and miners for old terms of art that deserve new life will find delight here.... The book has a short introduction by James Carville and Mary Matalin. And in addition to nearly 300 pages of citations, Mr. Barrett includes eight brief essays, one of them on '-gate' coinages (Does anybody remember what 'clamgate' or 'waste-watergate' referred to?).""--Dallas Morning News"
Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang...a great read Simon Hoggart, The Guardian
Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang...a great read * Simon Hoggart, The Guardian *
An entertaining and informed lexicon of 600 words and phrases describing both current and past political activities and the politicos who made them happen...a most useful state-of-the-slang compendium. --Library Journal A handy phrase-book to help us understand the yammering of the Beltway's chatterati. --Wall Street Journal Those seriously concerned with the vitality of our wonky Beltway blather may want to skip the next agriculture-subsidy roundtable to train their bifocals on Hatchet Jobs and Hardball .... There, with some imagination, you can freshen your lexicon with some forgotten or fairly obscure, but nevertheless serviceable, bits of political argot. Impress your fellow sheeple! --Tom Kuntz, The New York Times Word lovers and miners for old terms of art that deserve new life will find delight here.... The book has a short introduction by James Carville and Mary Matalin. And in addition to nearly 300 pages of citations, Mr. Barrett includes eight brief essays, one of them on '-gate' coinages (Does anybody remember what 'clamgate' or 'waste-watergate' referred to?). --Dallas Morning News
Author Information
Grant Barrett is the project editor of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang and a lexicographer in Oxford University Press's U.S. Dictionaries program. He lives in New York City.
