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

Here are some notes on what to look for. Full of old men in togas droning on, Latin words you can barely wrap your tongue around and all manner of complicated rules? State Of the Union: Presidential Rhetoric From Woodrow Wilson To George W Bush e-book. Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama. The Neurocritic on the return of physiognomy. Until I read a book just recently I didn't quite understand how important the mastery of this could be for leaders and managers too (and I don't mean the mastery of empty rhetoric!). You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama: Amazon.co.uk. Aristotle said there were three appeals that rhetoric could make: ethos, pathos and logos. Not so in Sam Leith's new book You Talkin' To Me? A conference speech seeks to turn, and a great conference speech succeeds in turning, “me and you” into “we.” Hence the workmanlike To adapt Barack Obama's ploce that one should “disagree without being disagreeable,” then, the effective conference speaker will use repetition without being repetitious. Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama by Sam Leith.