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

Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama has quite a cast. Rhetoric is rarely taught in colleges today, and the term is mostly used as a negative. Leith's book is, in fact, a magnificently entertaining romp through the intricacies of classic rhetorical technique from Aristotle to Obama. Hitler, and even Satan, work their spells. You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama by Sam Leith Sam Leith's You Talkin' to Me?, a highly entertaining and erudite whisk through the subject, shows how far this is from the truth. Not so in Sam Leith's new book You Talkin' To Me? 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 by Sam Leith. 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? He traces the art of persuasion from its ancient origins to the modern world.