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Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom
Stanley Fish
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Description for Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; HPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 219 x 24. Weight in Grams: 322.
"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 ... Read more
"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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Harper
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780062226655
SKU
V9780062226655
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99-15
About Stanley Fish
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom
Compelling...The points [Fish] presents are philosophical, metaphysical, even ontological.
Kirkus "Timely... readers will find this latest work simultaneously challenging and accessible."
Library Journal "A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language."
Slate on HOW TO WRITE A SENTENCE "Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style."
Financial ... Read more
Kirkus "Timely... readers will find this latest work simultaneously challenging and accessible."
Library Journal "A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language."
Slate on HOW TO WRITE A SENTENCE "Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style."
Financial ... Read more