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Product Description: A lively and accessible guide to understanding rhetoric by the world class English and Law professor and bestselling author of How to Write a SentenceFilled with the wit and observational prowess that shaped Stanley Fish's acclaimed bestseller How to Write a Sentence, Winning Arguments guides listeners through the ''greatest hits'' of rhetoric...read more

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