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Also by Geoffrey Nunberg:

Ascent of the A-Word, August 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
The Years of Talking Dangerously, May 2009
Hardcover
Talking Right, July 2007
Paperback
Talking Right, July 2006
Hardcover

THE YEARS OF TALKING DANGEROUSLY
By: Geoffrey Nunberg

PublicAffairs
May 2009
On Sale: May 4, 2009
256 pages
ISBN: 1586487450
EAN: 9781586487454
Hardcover
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“There has never been,” Nunberg writes, “an age as wary as ours of the tricks words can play, obscuring distinctions and smoothing over the corrugations of the actual world.... Yet as advertisers and marketers know, our mistrust of words doesn’t inoculate us against them.” These are the years of talking dangerously, and Nunberg is a sure guide to the pitfalls. With illuminating intelligence and devastating humor, Nunberg decodes the changing syntax of Time Magazine, explains why grammar buffs are drawn to sarcasm, and deftly unpacks the telling phrases of our national conversation, from progressive to elite to change— not to mention national conversation itself.

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Fresh Air - NPR - January 23, 2009