Protect and Defend.

Valenti, Jack. [William Safire]

Published by Doubleday, New York, 1992

About this Item

First edition of this work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the fly-leaf, "To Helen and Bill dear, dear loving friends. Read - enjoy! Jack Valenti." The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter and a close friend of the then Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin. Safire joined Nixonâ s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixonâ s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column â On Languageâ 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 Safireâ s â magnum opus,â Safireâ 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 near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Daniel J. Brown. Drawing on more than thirty years in Washington's inner circle, former White House Special Assistant Jack Valenti has written a sizzling election-year thriller about the price of virulent ambition in the high-stakes world of Washington politics, where heroes are flawed and the game is played for keeps. "Valenti blows the dome off the Capitol - as only an insider can" (Kirk Douglas).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Protect and Defend.
• Publisher: Doubleday, New York
• Publication Date: 1992
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Edition