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  • First edition of We'll Laugh Again; inscribed by Art Buchwald to American Journalist William Safire

    BUCHWALD, ART. [WILLIAM SAFIRE].

    We’ll Laugh Again.

    New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2002.

    First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on a bookplate affixed to the half-title page, “Aug 22, 2002 To Bill, you were expecting “War and Peace?” Yours, Art Buchwald.” The recipient, 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. With an additional typed letter signed by Buchwald addressed to Safire tipped in. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Front jacket photograph by Diana Walker.

    Price: $200.00     Item Number: 127932

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