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You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama Sam Leith
Publisher: Profile Books

How to be an MP: Paul Flynn MP; You Talkin' to me? Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama by Sam Leith. Speaker: Sam Leith, columnist and author of 'You Talkin' to Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama' (Profile Books, 2011). And on to Maxine's extra questions. Full of old men in togas droning on, Latin words you can barely wrap your tongue around and all manner of complicated rules? Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama. Churchill, Lincoln and Martin Luther King all hold court of course. What possible use does the ancient art of rhetoric have in the twenty-first century? The Neurocritic on the return of physiognomy. 4 The last book I bought: You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama by Sam Leith. Leith's book is, in fact, a magnificently entertaining romp through the intricacies of classic rhetorical technique from Aristotle to Obama. You Talkin\ To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama ' Sam Leith 2011 Profile Books 305 1846683157,9781846683152. Not so in Sam Leith's new book You Talkin' To Me? He traces the art of persuasion from its ancient origins to the modern world. As Sam Leith points out in his brilliant recent book, You Talkin' to Me? Rhetoric is rarely taught in colleges today, and the term is mostly used as a negative. Hitler, and even Satan, work their spells. 5 The last book I was given: Mordets Praktik by Kerstin Ekman. Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama has quite a cast.