![]() ![]() ![]() The Prince and the Pauper is a treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys born in London on the same day: Edward, Prince of Wales, and Tom Canty, a street beggar. 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. ![]() ![]() He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column â On Languageâ 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 Safireâ s â magnum opus,â Safireâ s Political Dictionary. After Nixonâ s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He joined Nixonâ s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. From the library of American journalist William Safire with his bookplate to the pastedown. 12mo, 2 volumes bound into one in half cloth over marbled boards. First Tauchnitz edition of Twainâ s first attempt at historical fiction, first published in Canada in 1881. ![]()
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