How to Win an Argument 1926

1926. In this book, the authors raise to the dignity of careful discussion those elementary tactics of successful argumentation which are ordinarily taken for granted. The principles treated are so basic, so obvious, that no one who has had the slightest experience with any phase of oral persuasion will think of questioning their entire validity. They are so thoroughly obvious that they tend to be universally overlooked. They are so altogether obvious that formal treatment in a text is necessary to make the average person aware of their existence. Contents: statement of principles; illustration of principles; exercises in analysis.