Ever wonder what politicians mean by words like "transparency," "reform," "diversity,""nation-building?" Award-finalist author John Clifton shows you in this handy guide that it's never what you think! It's all here, from "academia" to "Zionism," insightfully and perversely defined for you in terms that leave the language laid bare, and, occasionally, laid in ruins. Here is a "Devil's Dictionary" of political words and phrases, illustrated with cartoons by the author, that will have conservatives and liberals laughing and thinking at the same time.