William Safire is a man of many careers: reporter; public relations executive; politician; historian; novelist; lexicographer; columnist; and television commentator. As a reporter, he wrote a column in The New York Herald Tribune and later served as a correspondent for New York radio and television stations. As a public relations executive, he built a firm serving dozens of corporate and financial clients. As a novelist, he has written the best-selling book, Full Disclosure, Freedom, and his latest work, Sleeper Spy. He is also the author of Safire's New Political Dictionary, a half-million-word study of the words that have inspired and inflamed the electorate. As a political columnist, Safire has won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary in his twice-weekly column in The New York Times.
William Safire