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

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



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Page: 305
Publisher: Profile Books
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ISBN: 1846683157, 9781846683152


Rhetoric From Aristotle to Obama (Você está falando comigo? €�É por isso que eles surtem efeito”, diz Sam Leith, autor do livro You Talkin' To Me? In the telling of this lively story, Greenblatt adduces yet more evidence for Shelley's line that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. What possible use does the ancient art of rhetoric have in the twenty-first century? 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!). Hitler, and even Satan, work their spells. Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama by Sam Leith. Churchill, Lincoln and Martin Luther King all hold court of course. 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"? Rhetoric is rarely taught in colleges today, and the term is mostly used as a negative. Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama (Profile). As Sam Leith points out in his brilliant recent book, You Talkin' to Me? 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, Sam Leith writes:. €� Sam Leith is the author of You Talkin' To Me? Come on, Barry, one wants to say.