Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Winning an argument has almost nothing to do with being right. Mehdi Hasan’s core claim is that the room decides, and the room runs on values, feelings, and whether you can keep your composure while being attacked. He opens with a case from 428 BCE: after a failed revolt, the Athenian assembly voted to execute every man in Mytilene, and the orator Diodotus talked them out of it. Thousands lived because one person argued well when it counted. The rest of the book is a toolkit for doing the same.

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Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking