The Years of Talking Dangerously
By Geoffrey Nunberg; Geoff Nunberg
(PublicAffairs, Hardcover, 9781586487454, 265pp.)
Publication Date: May 2009
Other Editions of This Title: eBook
Categories: Sociolinguistics
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Description
Numberg writes there has never been an age as wary as ours of the tricks words can play. These are the years of talking dangerously, and the author of "Talking Right" deftly unpacks the telling phrases of America's national conversation.











