You Talkin' to Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama - Softcover

Leith, Sam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846683165 ISBN 13: 9781846683169

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

You-Talkin-to-Me

About this title

About the Author:

Sam Leith is a former Literary Editor of the Daily Telegraph, and contributes regularly to the Evening Standard, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Spectator and Prospect. He's the author of two nonfiction books: Dead Pets and Sod's Law and a novel, The Coincidence Engine.

Review:

Reading this book is the equivalent of lounging in a leather club armchair, wreathed in cigar smoke and a couple of whiskies down, alongside a companion who's being funny and clever about Homer and Hello! magazine by turns. -- Charlotte Higgins * Guardian * Entertaining ... You finish this book more than ready to rock a first in rhetoric. -- Hermione Eyre * Evening Standard * This is the best available analysis -- Boris Johnson Witty and revealing ... the chapter on Arrangement alone would probably bump up most student degrees by a class, not to mention the average oration -- James McConnachie * Sunday Times * Leith gives modern relevance to an ancient practice. Read this entertaining and instructive book and you will never again mistake an occultatio for an occupatio. -- Ian Finlayson * The Times *

About this edition

• Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1846683165
• ISBN 13: 9781846683169
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256