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15 Best Rhetoric Books

Goal: Find the best Rhetoric books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).

Method:

  1. Search for "best rhetoric books" and study the top 4+ pages.
  2. Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
  3. Rank the results neatly here.

15 Best Rhetoric Books

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1

A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms

by Richard A. Lanham

2

Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student

by Edward P. J. Corbett

3

A Rhetoric of Motives

by Kenneth Burke

4

Encyclopedia of Rhetoric

by Thomas O. Sloane

5

Rhetorica ad Herennium

by Cicero

6

Thank You for Arguing

What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion

by Jay Heinrichs

7

The Art of Rhetoric

by Aristotle

8

Made to Stick

Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

by Chip Heath

9

Cicero

The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician

by Anthony Everitt

10

Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric

by Ward Farnsworth

11

Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language

by Sister Miriam Joseph

12

The Elements of Eloquence

Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase

by Mark Forsyth

13

The Rhetorical Tradition

Readings from Classical Times to the Present

by Patricia Bizzell

14

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

by Hanif Abdurraqib

15

You Talkin' To Me?

Rhetoric from Aristotle to Trump and Beyond...

by Sam Leith

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Richard Reis

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Anurag Ramdasan

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