Winning Arguments

What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom

By: Stanley Fish

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

A lively and accessible guide to understanding rhetoric by the world class English and Law professor and bestselling author of How to Write a Sentence.

Filled with the wit and observational prowess that shaped Stanley Fish’s acclaimed bestseller How to Write a Sentence, Winning Arguments guides readers through the “greatest hits” of rhetoric. In this clever and engaging guide, Fish offers insight and outlines the crucial keys you need to win any debate, anywhere, anytime—drawn from landmark legal cases, politics, his own career, and even popular film and television. A celebration of clashing minds and viewpoints, Winning Arguments is sure to become a classic.

Stimulating enough to complete

This is a "good enough" book to read all the way to the end. I was particularly interested in the section on law as well as academia, and for me, these two chapters are possible future books for the author to amplify as stand alone detailed books on their own.

Somewhat useful

Listener gets dragged through quite pile of ridiculous religious examples in order to find actionable information. Between the gems are lots of blah blah blah.

It's meant tongue-in-cheek

This book is about the paradox that the title is meant tongue-in-cheek. And I highly recommend it to everyone, especially if you are looking for a book to help you win more arguments.

Lots of theory, little practicality for daily use

Narration was great. The material was more an intellectual exercise with multiple paradigms to famous arguments referenced and less a practical breakdown of the useful anatomy of an argument. More for the student than the general consumer.

Postmodern shit

Postmodern shit



Absolutely sad




Terrible





For a lack of better words of course hmmm


God ha.