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The Art of Rhetoric (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.87 — 7,018 ratings — published -322
Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.18 — 434 ratings — published 1965
Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.56 — 7,452 ratings — published 2007
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.35 — 7,478 ratings — published 2013
A Rhetoric of Motives (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.05 — 344 ratings — published 1969
The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.91 — 322 ratings — published 1990
Gorgias (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.94 — 15,027 ratings — published -380
On the Ideal Orator (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.83 — 524 ratings — published -55
Phaedrus (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.96 — 11,627 ratings — published -370
Rhetorica ad Herennium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.00 — 547 ratings — published -50
A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.15 — 229 ratings — published 1969
The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.13 — 844 ratings — published 1937
You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,669 ratings — published 2011
Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.17 — 495 ratings — published
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.21 — 180,640 ratings — published 1984
A Rulebook for Arguments (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,274 ratings — published 1986
The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.97 — 173 ratings — published 1958
The Art of Always Being Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.50 — 18,911 ratings — published 1831
Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.49 — 350 ratings — published 2013
Grammar of Motives (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.06 — 210 ratings — published 1969
Figures of Speech (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.04 — 280 ratings — published 1982
The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,491 ratings — published -350
Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.45 — 172 ratings — published 1993
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,298 ratings — published 1961
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,651 ratings — published 1918
The Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.08 — 457 ratings — published 2005
Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.79 — 87 ratings — published 1980
A New History of Classical Rhetoric (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.91 — 68 ratings — published 1994
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,397 ratings — published 2023
Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.30 — 79 ratings — published 2005
The History and Theory of Rhetoric: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.55 — 195 ratings — published 1996
Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.28 — 148 ratings — published 1966
How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,460 ratings — published 2006
How to Win an Argument: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
by (shelved 15 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.66 — 955 ratings — published 2016
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.42 — 12 ratings — published 2001
The Ethics of Rhetoric (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.12 — 98 ratings — published 1953
The Rhetoric Companion (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.92 — 128 ratings — published 2011
The Elements of Rhetoric -- How to Write and Speak Clearly and Persuasively: A Guide for Students, Teachers, Politicians & Preachers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.93 — 267 ratings — published
The Realm of Rhetoric (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.63 — 111 ratings — published 1977
Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.20 — 132 ratings — published 1965
Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.09 — 489 ratings — published 2016
The Uses of Argument (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.88 — 185 ratings — published 1958
Writing, Rhetoric, and the Art of Persuasion (The Modern Scholar: Way with Words, Vol. 1)
by (shelved 12 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.33 — 539 ratings — published 2006
Institutes of Oratory (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.94 — 109 ratings — published 95
Institutio Oratoria, Books 1-3 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.09 — 56 ratings — published 95
On Great Writing (On the Sublime) (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 12 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,091 ratings — published 1
Rhetorical Listening: Identification, Gender, Whiteness (Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms)
by (shelved 12 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.99 — 86 ratings — published 2005
On Christian Doctrine (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,059 ratings — published 397
How to Do Things with Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,673 ratings — published 1955
They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as rhetoric)
avg rating 3.77 — 6,447 ratings — published 2006
“There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism












