Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic.

First edition of Bette Bao Lord's Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic; inscribed by her to legendary journalist William Safire

Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic.

LORD, Bette Bao.

$125.00

Item Number: 135482

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the flyleaf, “For Helene and Bill – With best wishes Bette Bao Lord.” 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 supported him 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 fine dust jacket. Jacket design by R.D. Scudellari.

An urgent and timeless book - luminous with truth and feeling, a perfect conjunction of subject and author. Bette Bao Lord's Legacies beings us closer than we have ever been to penetrating the great conundrum of China: the Chinese sensibility, the Chinese tradition and China now.

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