Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years by Geoffrey Nunberg

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

Geoffrey Nunberg

272 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging funny informative slow-paced
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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 ...

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