-
You Talkin' To Me?: The Art of Persuasion from Aristotle to Obama (Hardback)
$21.29 - Save $2.55 (10%) - RRP $23.84 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for You Talkin' To Me?Rhetoric is nothing to be afraid of. It isn't the exclusive preserve of politicians: it's everywhere, from your argument with the insurance company to your plea to the waitress for a table near the window. This book examines how people have taught, practised and thought about rhetoric from its Attic origins to its twenty-first century apotheosis.
Full description- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Published: 20 October 2011
- Format: Hardback 256 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Language: Reference & General | Humour
- ISBN 13: 9781846683152 ISBN 10: 1846683157
- Sales rank: 20,298
Other books
Full description for You Talkin' To Me?
This is a witty, elegant enquiry into the art of persuasion. Rhetoric is nothing to be afraid of. It isn't the exclusive preserve of politicians: it's everywhere, from your argument with the insurance company to your plea to the waitress for a table near the window. It convicts criminals (and then frees them on appeal). It causes governments to rise and fall, best men to be shunned by their friends' brides, and perfectly sensible adults to march with steady purpose towards machine guns. In this highly entertaining (and persuasive) book, Sam Leith examines how people have taught, practised and thought about rhetoric from its Attic origins to its twenty-first century apotheosis. Along the way, he tells the stories of its heroes and villains, from Cicero and Erasmus, to Hitler, Obama - and Gyles Brandreth. Knowledge, it has been said, is power. And rhetoric is what gives words power.
