Sam Leith

Sam Leith's You Talkin' to Me? Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama is a witty enquiry into the art of persuasion. It looks at the ways people have taught, practised and thought about rhetoric from its Attic origins to its twenty-first century apotheosis. Rhetoric is what gives words power. It isn't just courts and parliament – it's all around us. You have been using rhetoric yourself, all your life. After all, you know what a rhetorical question is, don't you?. Part of Aye Write!

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