num_pages: 524
description: The book his readers have asked for--on the uses and abuses of language, vocabulary, diction and dictionaries, journals and journalists, style, eloquence, interviews and reviews--Buckley: The Right Word includes interviews with Charlie Rose and The Paris Review, verbal encounters with Borges, le Carre, Galbraith, Schlesinger, Playboy, Cosmopolitan, The New York Times, essays on formality and style--even a Buckley lexicon. Online promo.
language: English
title: The Right Word
titlecomplete: The Right Word
genres: Biography, Essays, Language, Writing, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 150
publisher: Random House