Euphemania: Our Love Affair with Euphemisms

Author/Contributor(s):	Keyes, Ralph
Publisher:	Little, Brown Spark
Date:	12/14/2010
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

A lively and thought-provoking look at the power of words, "Euphemania" traces the origins of euphemisms from a tool of the church to a form of gentility to today's instrument of commercial, political, and postmodern doublespeak.