The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Grant Barrett (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition

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ISBN-13: 978-0195304473

ISBN-10: 0195304470

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The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang illuminates a rich and colorful segment of our language. Readers will find informative entries on slang terms such as "Beltway bandit" and "boondoggle," "angry white male" and "leg treasurer," "juice bill" and "Joe Citizen," "banana superpower" and "the Big Fix." We find not only the meaning and history of familiar terms such as "gerrymander," but also of lesser-known terms such as "cracking" (splitting a bloc of like-minded voters by redistricting) and "fair-fight district" (which refers to areas redistricted to favor no political party). Each entry includes the definition of the word, its historical background, and illuminating citations, some going back more than 200 years. Selected entries will have extended encyclopedic notes. The book also features sidebar essays on topics such as political words in Blogistan; a short history of "big cheese"; all about chads and the 2000 election; the suffix "-gate" and all the related Watergate terms; and the naming of legislation. Political junkies, policy wonks, journalists, and word lovers will find this book addictive reading as well as a reliable guide to one of the more colorful corners of American English.

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"An entertaining and informed lexicon of 600 words and phrases describing both current and past political activities and the politicos who made them happen...a most useful state-of-the-slang compendium."--Library Journal

"A handy phrase-book to help us understand the yammering of the Beltway's chatterati."--Wall Street Journal

"Those seriously concerned with the vitality of our wonky Beltway blather may want to skip the next agriculture-subsidy roundtable to train their bifocals on "Hatchet Jobs and Hardball".... There, with some imagination, you can freshen your lexicon with some forgotten or fairly obscure, but
nevertheless serviceable, bits of political argot. Impress your fellow sheeple!"--Tom Kuntz, The New York Times

"Word lovers and miners for old terms of art that deserve new life will find delight here.... The book has a short introduction by James Carville and Mary Matalin. And in addition to nearly 300 pages of citations, Mr. Barrett includes eight brief essays, one of them on '-gate' coinages (Does
anybody remember what 'clamgate' or 'waste-watergate' referred to?)."--Dallas Morning News --This text refers to the paperback edition.

About the Author

Grant Barrett is the project editor of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang and a lexicographer in Oxford University Press's U.S. Dictionaries program. He lives in New York City.
--This text refers to the paperback edition.

Product details

File Size : 2740 KB
Publication Date : April 21, 2006
Word Wise : Enabled
ASIN : B001UE6O6E
Print Length : 302 pages
Publisher : Oxford University Press; 1st Edition (April 21, 2006)
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Enhanced Typesetting : Not Enabled
Language: : English
Lending : Enabled

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- #446 in Slang & Idiom Reference Books
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- #983 in Political Reference

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Very useful for foreigners like myself to get immersed in US politics. Is exactly what the cover says: a dictionary with political slang (carpetbaggers, lame duck...) and their origins.

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