Words like loaded pistols: rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama

Introduction

Rhetoric then and now.

[pt. 1] Five parts of rhetoric

The first part of rhetoric : invention

Champions of rhetoric 1. Satan : the original silver-tongued devil

The second part of rhetoric : arrangement

Champions of rhetoric 2. Marcus Tullius Cicero : the attack dog of the Roman forum

The third part of rhetoric : style

Champions of rhetoric 3. Abraham Lincoln : "a few appropriate remarks"

The fourth part of rhetoric : memory

Champions of rhetoric 4 : Hitler and Churchill

The fifth part of rhetoric : delivery.

[pt. 2] Three branches of oratory

Deliberative rhetoric

Champions of rhetoric 5. Maritn Luther King : daydream believer

Judicial rhetoric

Champions of rhetoric 6. Barack Obama : the audacity of trope

Epideictic rhetoric 7. The unknown speechwriter

Thus it can be shown.

Glossary

Figures by theme.