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  • Thank You for Arguing, Third Edition

  • What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion
  • By: Jay Heinrichs
  • Narrated by: Jay Heinrichs
  • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (480 ratings)

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Thank You for Arguing, Third Edition

By: Jay Heinrichs
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A master class in the art of persuasion, as taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill, newly revised and updated.

The time-tested secrets taught in this book include Cicero's three-step strategy for moving an audience to action and Honest Abe's Shameless Trick for lowering an audience's expectations. And it's also replete with contemporary techniques such as politicians' use of code language to appeal to specific groups and an eye-opening assortment of persuasive tricks, including the Eddie Haskell Ploy, the Belushi Paradigm, Stalin's Timing Secret, and the Yoda Technique.

Whether you're an inveterate lover of language books or just want to win a lot more anger-free arguments on the page, at the podium, or over a beer, Thank You for Arguing is for you. Warm, witty, erudite, and truly enlightening, it teaches you not only how to recognize a paralipsis when you hear it but also how to wield the weapons of persuasion the next time you really, really want to get your own way.

©2007, 2017 Jay Heinrichs (P)2018 Random House Audio
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Packed.

Talk about bang for your buck. This is more for the serious study of rhetoric and communication. It’s dense with its own vernacular and glossary. This beast deserves a couple of reads (both book and audio) to grasp the sheer sum of content. Doing so would be a good investment into yourself.

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Rhetoric like breathing.

Both we do without thinking, both we can do better with training. This one is a must for anyone.

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Kapernick example by author needs revision

Kapernick stated his reason for kneeling was
“Police Brutality.”
Overall terminology and subject interesting and
Informative

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Worth A Listen

There is a lot of content and information in this book, I'll have to go back and listen to it again and hopefully absorb more from it. But it is entertaining and informative in the art of rhetoric, with several good examples.I would recommend it to anyone interested in rhetoric.

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Required Reading

Just like the author suggests, this should be required reading for anyone who considers themselves educated.

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Respectable approach to sophists

This book is a lengthy lesson that shares many details, but does not stress them. There are some decent storytelling examples to support the lessons along the way.
I will probably need to read this again to absorb many of the lessons, and I as a person, probably won’t… unfortunately.

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great book

Heinrich offers great insight into different conversational methods, offers different approaches for conversations, and does a great job explaining how and why certain arguments do and don't work, as well as how some are better than others.

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Started out great, got longwinded and boring.

It when from rather interesting to really boring as it went on and I cannot follow all the jargon. I'd ditch the Latin and use layman's terms. Understanding how to use rhetoric to manipulate people and how to detect it is practical. I have no use for the Latin/jargon. The examples where sometimes ridiculous and felt more like thought experiments. Overall it was interesting but not very practical advise.

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Rhetoric made fun

Definitely fun to listen to and learn from. This is a reward you want to take notes from, re read it and learn deeper from the second time around.

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story and audio

the book of pretty good, he goes off a bit which is annoying when u have to do this for a project.

the voice, however, was rlly annoying. i had to put it in 1.3/4 speed cause how slow he was going, and his voice kept changing later on in the chapters. he went all over the place when i came to reading the side notes. once i figured a pattern, the next section reading broke the pattern. as well as his voice is not to my taste. the audio was very disappointing

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