A Stroll With William James.

BARZUN, Jacques. [William Safire].

$500.00

Item Number: 128020

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1983.

First edition of Barzun’s intimate biography of “Father of American psychology”, William James. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “For Bill, with admiration on many counts. Jacques 22 IV 83.” 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. With two typed transmittal letters signed by Barzun to Safire laid in. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

Jacques Barzun, one of America's foremost students of intellectual history, here brings to life the genius of well-beloved but not adequately known American philosopher, William James: one of the most influential philosophers of the United States, and the "Father of American psychology".