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336 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780465096190
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 26 April 2016
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"An entertaining history of great oratory" and a primer to rhetoric's key techniques(The New Yorker). In Words Like Loaded Pistols, Sam Leith traces the art of persuasion, beginning in ancient Syracuse and taking us up to the Twitterverse. Along ...
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336 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780465096190
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 26 April 2016
Description
"An entertaining history of great oratory" and a primer to rhetoric's key techniques(The New Yorker). In Words Like Loaded Pistols, Sam Leith traces the art of persuasion, beginning in ancient Syracuse and taking us up to the Twitterverse. Along ...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings