Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric From Aristotle to Obama Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2022) Dogged by bad luck

Dogged by bad luck

A unique feature in each chapter is the 'Guided Tour' which takes readers to specific habitats to explore the trees

Tom must use every weapon he can get hold of

Getting to the heart of our hassled and over-scheduled existence

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Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric From Aristotle to Obama Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2022) Dogged by bad luckIn 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).