Come to Think of It: Notes on the End of the Millennium.

SCHORR, Daniel.

$200.00

Item Number: 128073

New York: Viking, 2007.

First edition of Schorr’s insightful analysis of of modern history. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To the Safires with admiration mingled with affection Dan.” 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 near fine dust jacket.

Daniel Schorr, an institution at CBS for decades and a twenty-year mainstay of NPR, is a legend in journalism. Come to Think of It collects in one place, for the first time, Schorr's observations on politics and American life over the years from 1990 to the present - a peerless commentary on the politics and history of our time.