Sean Gabb reviews William Safire on Eloquence

I’m feeling bitchy today. Here is a review I wrote many years ago. It still brings a twisted smile to my face.

My own estimate of the book, I regret, is less flattering to Mr Safire’s vanity. I find it perhaps as worthless a performance as has yet been reviewed in these pages. It is defective alike in scholarship and in taste. I am astonished at the time and money wasted on its production. If I felt the least concern for the environment, I might shed tears for the acres of forest cut down to supply the press on which it was printed….

via Free Life 19, November 1993, Sean Gabb Reviews .

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