You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama by Sam Leith

You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama Sam Leith ebook
Format: pdf
Publisher: Profile Books
Page: 305
ISBN: 1846683157, 9781846683152

Come on, Barry, one wants to say. : rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama / Sam Leith, Profile Books, 2011, Gen Lit C470 LEITH You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. The president gave a smash-hits selection of oratorical devices, from emphatic anaphora to substantial synthetonPresident Obama's second inaugural, as far as rhetoric goes, was the equivalent of a greatest hits album knocked out in " tempered"; "snow-capped peaks"; "that precious light of freedom"? Churchill, Lincoln and Martin Luther King all hold court of course. Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama, Sam Leith writes:. Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama has quite a cast. Consider your own relationship to the term, and let us know if you imagine other definitions of hybridity that might generate productive discussion. Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama. Not so in Sam Leith's new book You Talkin' To Me? 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!). 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 (Profile). Hitler, and even Satan, work their spells. € Sam Leith is the author of You Talkin' To Me?