You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama by Sam Leith

You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama



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ISBN: 1846683157, 9781846683152
Publisher: Profile Books
Page: 305
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