Strictly Speaking

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Summary: Best book I've read on the subject.
Review: There's more than one form of obfuscation. How typically Buckley for brother Reid to extol (forgive me) the virtues of plain speaking in one breath, while declaiming "Don't divagate!" in the next. It's one thing to celebrate the richness of the language and quite another to muddy the message with a vocabulary so rarefied that meaning is often lost completely---along with the reader's patience and appreciation. This is what Reid Buckley does all too well. Not clever!