I researched the history of "speaking truth to power," tracing it from the mid-20C to the mid-18C. Writeup in today's @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social
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into the hands of editor Judith Jones at Doubleday in 1954. Jones convinced her boss to reread the manuscript and reconsider publishing. What started out as a 5,000-copy printing quickly sold out and has not been out of print in the U.S. since. shorturl.at/3w261

Addison's vision of a goddess classing all writers and thinkers: “editors, critics, commentators, and grammarians . . . demanded the first station in the column of knowledge; but the goddess . . . clapped them all into liveries, and bid them know themselves for no other but laqueys of the learned.”

This is incredibly important and super interesting! All fans of either "fuck" or W3 must read it!

Philip Gove and the F-Bomb: The story of how fuck did not make it into Webster's Third: theamericanscholar.org/philip-gove-...