Bibliograph

Words like loaded pistols, rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama, Sam Leith

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Words like loaded pistols, rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama, Sam Leith

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Words like loaded pistols

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

754725207

Responsibility statement

Sam Leith

Sub title

rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama

Table Of Contents

Rhetoric then and now -- The first part of rhetoric: Invention -- Champions of rhetoric I : Satan, the original silver-tongued devil -- The second part of rhetoric: Arrangement -- Champions of rhetoric II : Marcus Tullius Cicero, the attack dog of the Roman forum -- The third part of rhetoric: Style -- Champions of rhetoric III : Abraham Lincoln, "a few appropriate remarks" -- The fourth part of rhetoric: Memory -- Champions of rhetoric IV : Hitler and Churchill -- The fifth part of rhetoric: Delivery --Three branches of oratory. Deliberative rhetoric -- Champions of rhetoric V : Martin Luther King, Jr., daydream believer -- Judicial rhetoric -- Champions of rhetoric VI : Barack Obama, the audacity of trope -- Epideictic rhetoric -- Champions of rhetoric VII : the unknown speechwriter -- Thus it can be shown

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