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Words Like Loaded Pistols : Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama

by Sam Leith

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"An entertaining history of great oratory" and a primer to rhetoric''s key techniques (The New Yorker). In Words Like Loaded Pistols, Sam Leith traces the art of persuasion, beginning in ancient Syracuse and taking us up to the Twitterverse. Along th... Read more
"An entertaining history of great oratory" and a primer to rhetoric''s key techniques (The New Yorker).

In Words Like Loaded Pistols, Sam Leith traces the art of persuasion, beginning in ancient Syracuse and taking us up to the Twitterverse. Along the way, he follows detours as varied and fascinating as Elizabethan England, Milton''s Satanic realm, the Springfield of Abraham Lincoln and the Springfield of Homer Simpson. He explains how language has been used by the great heroes of rhetoric (such as Cicero and Martin Luther King Jr.), as well as some villains (like Adolf Hitler and Richard Nixon.) You''ll find out how to build your own memory-palace; you''ll be introduced to the Three Musketeers: Ethos, Pathos and Logos; and you''ll learn how to use chiasmus with confidence and occultation without thinking about it. Most importantly of all, you will discover that rhetoric is useful, relevant -- and something you can master.

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File size8.2x5.5x0.9inches
Print pages336
PublisherBasic Books
Publication date April 1, 2016
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780465096190
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Sam Leith
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Sam Leith is a former Literary Editor of the Daily Telegraph, and contributes regularly to the Evening Standard, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Spectator and Prospect. He's the author of two nonfictio...

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