Enough Said: What's Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics? (Paperback) by Mark Thompson

from themulhern

Promised much more than it delivers. From his biographical details and some remarks in the book I would conclude the author to be an upper-class English Catholic. And Wikipedia confirms the diagnosis. I didn't think much of the book, but I've mentioned it several times when talking with coworkers...

from nmele

I found this book insightful and accurate; Thompson views the decline in the quality of civil discourse through the lens of rhetoric as defined and used by the classical writers, starting with Aristotle. He examines how the medium shapes the rhetoric, if only by cutting recordings of politicians'...

from nmele

I found this book insightful and accurate; Thompson views the decline in the quality of civil discourse through the lens of rhetoric as defined and used by the classical writers, starting with Aristotle. He examines how the medium shapes the rhetoric, if only by cutting recordings of politicians'...