Geoffrey Nunberg

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1. Geoffrey Nunberg

   Author of Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Controversial Times, Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show, The Way We Talk Now

2. George Lakoff

   Author of Metaphors We Live By, Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives, Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think

3. David Crystal

   Author of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, The Stories of English

4. Nicholas A. Basbanes

   Author of Patience & Fortitude, A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World

5. John McWhorter

   Author of The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English, Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care

6. Elizabeth L Eisenstein

   Author of The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, The printing press as an agent of change

7. Thomas Frank

   Author of What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule

8. Bill Bryson

   Author of The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way, Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States, Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words

9. Steven Pinker

   Author of The Language Instinct, Words and Rules

10. Lucien Febvre

    Author of The Coming of the Book

11. Joe Conason

    Author of Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth

12. Richard Lederer

    Author of Crazy English, Miracle of Language

13. Adrian Johns

    Author of The Nature of the Book

14. Henry Petroski

    Author of The Book on the Bookshelf

15. Roger Chartier

    Author of The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe Between the 14th and 18th Centuries

16. Simon Winchester

    Author of The Professor and the Madman, The Meaning of Everything

17. Hillel Schwartz

    Author of The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles

18. Sven Birkerts

    Author of The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

19. Stephen Jay Gould

    Author of Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin, Dinosaur in a Haystack

20. Eric Alterman

    Author of What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News, The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America