Includes more than 600 slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech. We find not only the meaning and history of familiar terms such as gerrymander, but also of lesser-known terms such as cracking (splitting a bloc of like-minded voters by redistricting) and fair-fight district (which refers to areas redistricted to favor no political party). Each entry includes the definition of the word, its historical background, and usage citations, some going back more than 200 years.--From publisher description
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 302)
Notes
Originally published in a hardcover ed. in 2004 with title: Hatchet jobs and hardball : the Oxford dictionary of American political slang
