Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom â A Witty Guide to Rhetoric, Debates, and Persuasion

Fish, Stanley

ISBN 10: 0062226673 / ISBN 13: 9780062226679

Published by Harper Paperbacks, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom â A Witty Guide to Rhetoric, Debates, and Persuasion
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062226673
• ISBN 13: 9780062226679
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

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Synopsis

“Fish mines cultural touchstones from Milton to ‘Married with Children’ to explain how various types of arguments are structured and how that understanding can lead to victory” — New York Times Book Review

A lively and accessible guide to understanding rhetoric by the world class English and Law professor and bestselling author of How to Write a Sentence.

Filled with the wit and observational prowess that shaped Stanley Fish’s acclaimed bestseller How to Write a Sentence, Winning Arguments guides readers through the “greatest hits” of rhetoric. In this clever and engaging guide, Fish offers insight and outlines the crucial keys you need to win any debate, anywhere, anytime—drawn from landmark legal cases, politics, his own career, and even popular film and television. A celebration of clashing minds and viewpoints, Winning Arguments is sure to become a classic. 

About the Author

Stanley Fish is a professor of law at Florida International University in Miami, and dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He has also taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, and Duke University. He is the author of fourteen books, most recently Fugitive in Flight and Save the World on Your Own Time. He lives in Andes, New York, and New York City.