Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us about the Art of Persuasion
- ISBN-10
- 0307341445
- ISBN-13
- 9780307341440
- Series
- Thank You for Arguing
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 316
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Three Rivers Press (CA)
- Author
- Jay Heinrichs
Description
An introduction to the fine art of rhetoric explains how this important skill can profoundly influence one's success in one personal and professional life, using contemporary examples to illuminate classical rhetorical strategies and revealing how the forces of persuasion are at work all around us and how they can be used for one's own benefit. Original. 40,000 first printing.
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- 2013
- 408 pages
- Paperback
- Three Rivers Press (CA)
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- 2020-04-23
- 449 pages
- Paperback
- Penguin Press
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