Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama And it isn’t just the preserve of politicians. After all, you know what a rhetorical question is, don’t you?In Words 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 E
| Title | : | Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.51 (776 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00BJZJ8MG |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2012-05-01 |
| Genre | : |
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?
In Words 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, 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 Ri
Editorial : Salon
“Delightful and illuminating.Words Like Loaded Pistols sports a fabulous assortment of examples of time-tested rhetorical gambits in action.The marvel is not that the old techniques still work, but that we ever persuaded ourselves that we could do without them.”
Publishers Weekly
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