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Presents a history of the word "asshole"--Its use by World War II servicemen to express frustration at arrogant superiors to its first use in print by Norman Mailer to George W. Bush's use of the word to describe a journalist.
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Cool, classical in form, spare and resolved.
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Geoffrey Nunberg
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 251
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781610391764
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