In an increasingly Orwellian world, everyone should be armed with this hilarious, slyly subversive deconstruction of the slippery locutions of spinmeisters from

Describes the four different types of doublespeak (euphemism, jargon, gobbledygook, and inflated language).

With more than 1,200 terms, this A to Z dictionary is a hard-hitting, politically savvy translation of all those evasions, put-on-holds, distortions, circumvent

The author "exposes the latest doublespeak that permeates what passes for communication in our society."--Jacket.