Book description
The definitive guide to getting your way, revised and updated with new material on writing, speaking, framing, and other key tools for arguing more powerfully
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āCross Cicero with David Letterman and you get Jay Heinrichs.āāJoseph Ellis, Pulitzer Prizeāwinning author ofĀ The QuartetĀ andĀ American Sphinx
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Now in its fourth edition,ā¦
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1 author picked Thank You for Arguing as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Why would I include a book on rhetoric right after a set of recommendations of titles covering philosophy, given the two-thousand-year rivalry between those two ancient disciplines? In contrast to other people who teach critical thinking, I place great value on persuasive communications, commonly referred to as rhetoric, given the need to see through the rhetoric of others when analyzing their arguments, and the ability of persuasive language to turn valid and sound arguments into unstoppable ones.Ā In his recently updated bestseller Thank You for Arguing, author Jay Heinrich lays out a powerful case for why effective argumentationā¦
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