Without Fear of Favor: The New York Times and its Times.

SALISBURY, Harrison E. [William Safire].

Item Number: 128036

New York: Times Books, 1980.

First edition of this account of the “inside story” of the New York Times. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Bill Safire Who helped to get this one going! Harrison Salisbury.” 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. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Here is the tumultuous, controversial inside story of The New York Times' break with the Establishment and its coming of age as the world's greatest newspaper. Without Fear of Favor is the result of hundreds of in-depth interviews over a dozen years, from Nixon, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Kissinger, William Colby and Howard Hunt to Daniel Elsberg, Katherine Graham, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger and scores of other decisive figures of the 20th century.