Frustrated that there just isn't a word for everything, the author of the Tony Award-winning play The Lehman Trilogy took it upon himself to coin some new ones, and the results collected here are delightful. Every chapter in this amusingly illustrated book mentions a new word derived from one of his entertaining stories about a real person, from Louis XIV to an American gangster, with some of our favorites being "hearstian," "nazinate," "questic," "rosabellian," and "telegramic."