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Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama
Words Like Loaded Pistols Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama
Author: Sam Leith
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 (suc...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780465096190
ISBN-10: 0465096190
Publication Date: 3/22/2016
Pages: 320
Edition: First Trade Paper Ed
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Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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