Summary

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.

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“Legal scholar Fish provides a practical, thought-provoking guide to improving argument skills…An important book for any lawyer, scholar, or pundit—not to mention any spouse who has tried to walk back fractious words—Fish’s shrewd work can help everyone better understand the power of effective communication in everyday life.” —Publishers Weekly

“Not a guide to coming out on top in a squabble but an exploration of the strategies that succeed in personal, political, and professional domains…This timely publication that coincides with the upcoming presidential election will attract Fish’s already established audience; newcomers to the author should find this latest work simultaneously challenging and accessible.” —Library Journal

“The points [Fish] presents are philosophical, metaphysical, even ontological…The book is not so much about winning arguments as it is about better arguments, ones that elevate the discourse toward a mutual discovery of truth (whatever that is) rather than scoring points toward partisan goals…Fish presents a compelling argument about the necessity of argument.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Author Bio: Stanley Fish

Stanley Fish is an American literary theorist, legal scholar, author, and public intellectual. He is the Floersheimer Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. In 1994 he won the 1994 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for There’s No Such Thing As Free Speech, and It’s a Good Thing, Too.

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Format:	Retail CD	Format:	MP3 CD
Available Formats :	Retail CD, MP3 CD
Category:	Nonfiction
Publisher:	HarperCollins	Publisher:	HarperCollins
CDs:	5	CDs:	1
Runtime:	6.00
ISBN:	9781504736497	ISBN:	9781504736503
Audience:	Adult
Language:	English

Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom

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