New York Close-Up.

MCCRARY, Tex and Jinx Falkenberg. [William Safire].

$450.00

Item Number: 132199

New York: New York Herald Tribune, 1949-1951.

Bound collection of New York Close Up columns, from the library of American Journalist William Safire. Folio, original boards with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. From the library of American journalist William Safire with his bookplate to the pastedown. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and 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. In fine condition.

This collection of New York Close-up Columns includes brief biographical sketches of Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Joan Crawford, Lena Horne, Bob Hope, Aldous Huxley, Carl Sandburg, and Ginger Rogers, among dozens of others.