Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric From Aristotle to Obama Condition:Good Nancy Holzner writes and edits

Nancy Holzner writes and edits technology books from her home in central New York state

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Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric From Aristotle to Obama Condition:Good Nancy Holzner writes and editsIn Words Like Loaded Pistols, Sam Leith traces the art of persuasion, beginning in ancient Syracuse and taking us on detours as varied and fascinating as Elizabethan England, Milton's Satanic realm, the Springfield of Abraham Lincoln, and the Springfield of Homer Simpson. He explains how language has been used by the great heroes of rhetoric (such as Cicero and Martin Luther King Jr.), as well as some villains (like Adolf Hitler and Richard Nixon).