Ascent of the A-Word Assholism, the First Sixty Years

Name: Ascent of the A-Word Assholism, the First Sixty Years
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ISBN: 9781610392587

ISBN-10: 1610392582

ISBN-13: 9781610392587

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Authors: Geoffrey Nunberg

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It first surfaced in the gripes of GIs during World War II and was captured early on by the typewriter of a young Norman Mailer. Within a generation it had become a basic notion of our everyday moral life, replacing older reproaches like lout and heel with a single inclusive category––a staple of country outlaw songs, Neil Simon plays, and Woody Allen movies. Feminists made it their stock rebuke for male insensitivity, the est movement used it for those who didn’t “get it,” and Dirty Harry applied it evenhandedly to both his officious superiors and the punks he manhandled.The asshole has become a focus of collective fascination for us, just as the phony was for Holden Caulfield and the cad…

Book details

List price: $17.50
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 6/11/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.396

He is a principal scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center & a consulting professor in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University. He is also chair of the Usage Panel of The American Heritage Dictionary of the english Language. He lives in San Francisco.



Introduction



The Word



The Uses of Vulgarity



The Rise of Talking Dirty



The Asshole Comes of Age



Men Are All Assholes



The Asshole in the Mirror



The Allure of Assholes



The Assholism of Public Life


Notes


Acknowledgments


A Note on the Figures


Index