BAKER, Herschel. [William Hazlitt].
William Hazlitt.
First edition of Herschel Baker's William Hazlitt; from the library of American Journalist William Safire
Cambridge University Press: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
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First edition of perhaps the greatest and most complete biography of the great Romantic. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated, frontispiece portrait of Hazlitt. From the library of William Safire, although not marked. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until the month of his death and authored two books on grammar and linguistics: The New Language of Politics (1968) and what Zimmer called Safire’s “magnum opus,” Safire’s Political Dictionary. Safire later served as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1995 to 2004 and in 2006 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
William Hazlitt.
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