A expert 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 within this book include Cicero’s three-step technique for moving an audience to action, and Honest Abe’s Shameless Trick for lowering an audience’s expectations. And it’s replete with contemporary techniques such as politicians’ usage of code language to charm to specfic groups and an eye-opening assortment of persuasive techniques, like the Eddie Haskell Ploy, the Belushi Paradigm, Stalin’s Timing Top secret, as well as the Yoda Technique.

Whether you’re an inveterate enthusiast of vocabulary books or just want to get far more anger-free arguments on the web page, in the podium, or higher a beer, Thank You for Arguing is for you. Warm, witty, erudite, and really enlightening, it not only teaches you how exactly to identify a paralipsis when you hear it, but also how to wield the weapons of persuasion next time you really, actually, want to get your own method.