Words like loaded pistols : rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama /

Leith, Sam.

Words like loaded pistols : rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama / Sam Leith. - New York : Basic Books, c2012. - viii, 312 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Previously published as: You talkin' to me.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rhetoric then and now -- The first part of rhetoric : invention -- The second part of rhetoric : arrangement -- The third part of rhetoric : style -- The fourth part of rhetoric : memory -- The fifth part of rhetoric : delivery -- Deliberative rhetoric -- Judicial rhetoric -- Epideitic rhetoric -- Thus it can be shown -- . Introduction --

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English language--Rhetoric.
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
Rhetoric--History.
Rhetoric.

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