Words Like Loaded Pistols Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama

Name: Words Like Loaded Pistols Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama
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ISBN: 9780465031054

ISBN-10: 0465031056

ISBN-13: 9780465031054

Edition: 2012

Authors: Sam Leith

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Rhetoric is all around us. It’s what inspires armies, convicts criminals, and makes or breaks presidential candidates. And it isn’t just the preserve of politicians. It’s in the presentation to a key client, the half-time talk in the locker room, and the plea to your children to eat their vegetables. Rhetoric gives words power: it persuades and cajoles, inspires and bamboozles, thrills and misdirects. You have been using rhetoric yourself, all your life. After all, you know what a rhetorical question is, don’t you?InWords Like Loaded Pistols, Sam Leith traces the art of persuasion, beginning in ancient Syracuse and taking us on detours as varied and fascinating as Elizabethan England,…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 5/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Graham Brown is a former pilot, lawyer, entrepreneur, and bestselling author. Brown is the author of the Hawker/Laidlaw series. The first novel in the series, Black Rain, was published in January 2010. It was followed by Black Sun, published in September 2010, and The Eden Prophecy, released January 31, 2012. Graham has co-authored 2 novels of the NUMA Files Series with perennially bestselling author Clive Cussler: Devil's Gate (Penguin Nov. 2011) and The Storm (Penguin May 2012).