The author "exposes the latest doublespeak that permeates what passes for communication in our society."--Jacket.

Describes the four different types of doublespeak (euphemism, jargon, gobbledygook, and inflated language).

In an increasingly Orwellian world, everyone should be armed with this hilarious, slyly subversive deconstruction of the slippery locutions of spinmeisters from

This timely intervention exposes the euphemized language of the extreme right as a deceptive attempt to secure greater influence over public policy. Since the e

With more than 1,200 terms, this A to Z dictionary is a hard-hitting, politically savvy translation of all those evasions, put-on-holds, distortions, circumvent