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

Tacitus, Suetonius, and Juvenal all figure in Bartsch's shrewd analysis of historical and literary responses to the brute facts of empire; even the Panegyricus