Words like loaded pistols
Subtitle: rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama
By: Sam Leith
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780465031054; 9780465031078
Subjects: Persuasion (Rhetoric); Rhetoric; English language; History
Work titles: You talkin' to me
Notes: Previously published as: You talkin' to me.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: Rhetoric then and now; title: 5 parts of rhetoric; title: 1st part of rhetoric: invention; title: Satan; title: 2nd part of rhetoric: arrangement; title: Cicero; title: 3rd part of rhetoric: style; title: Lincoln; title: 4th part of rhetoric: memory; title: Hitler and Churchill; title: 5th part of rhetoric: delivery; title: 3 branches of oratory; title: Deliberative rhetoric; title: M.L. King; title: Judicial rhetoric; title: Obama; title: Epideictic rhetoric; title: Unknown speechwriter; title: Thus it can be shown...