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

Author: Stanley Fish

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 6 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 07/05/2016

Synopsis

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. 

About Stanley Fish

Stanley Fish is a professor of law at Florida International University in Miami, and dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He has also taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, and Duke University. He is the author of fourteen books, most recently Fugitive in Flight and Save the World on Your Own Time. He lives in Andes, New York, and New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark on December 18, 2020

In rough political times I crave the clarity of Fish’s analysis of bounded argument spaces. My second read was even better than my first. New insights. And numbers of laugh-out-loud-at-the-cleverness moments. I’m indebted to Fish. Numbers of other reviewers appeared to expect this to be a how-to book......more

Goodreads review by Paul on March 07, 2017

The title of this book is rather unfortunate and will throw the average genial reader off. Reviews seem to reflect this. This is not a book that will instruct you on how to win arguments in various fields. This is not a manual on rhetoric. The subtitle appears to promise this, however. This work is......more

Goodreads review by Sean on May 15, 2019

Fish is an Elsa; I'm an Anna (And I suspect you are too.) Also misleading title. Should be something more along the lines of "On the Persistence of Argument: Why We Can't (And Probably Shouldn't Try to) Stop Arguing" In his introduction, Fish tells us exactly what he proposes to do: 1) Explain how arg......more

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