Talking Right: The Politics of Language--how the Right Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show
Geoffrey Nunberg breaks new ground with this fierce and funny narrative of how the political right has ushered in a new world order, aided unwittingly by the liberal media. Democrats are well known for their "lousy bumper stickers," as Joe Klein puts it. As liberals wade through the semantics of "social security lockbox," "single payer," and other wonky locutions, the right has become harder, meaner and better at getting out the message: the estate tax became the more menacing "death tax" and...
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A captivating and outraged account of "The Great Relabeling" of American language and thought, by the well-known "Fresh Air" commentator and author of Going Nucular
IntroductionA Loss for Words 7The Shadow of Language 19Trashing the L-word 41Class Dismissed 49The Volvo Dodge 63Color Wars 73I Married an Elite 85"Values" Play 105On the Pavement, Thinking About the Government 121Old Bottles, New Whines 151The War on "Truth" 169Is This a Great Country, or What? 187Conclusion: Tell Me a Story 201Afterword 209A Note on the Word Counts in This Book 215Acknowledgments 217Notes 219Index 261About the Author 271
