Books written by Herbert W. Simons

  • Persuasion in Society: Second Edition

    This text examines current and classical theory through the lens of contemporary culture, encouraging readers to explore the nature of persuasion and to understand its impact in their lives.

  • The Legacy of Kenneth Burke

    With singer / songwriter grandson Harry Chapin . Among Burke's many accomplishments was the composition of a song which Chapin made famous , " One Light in a Dark Valley . ” Burke complained at the conference that he made more money off ...

  • The Rhetorical Turn: Invention and Persuasion in the Conduct of Inquiry

    See Raymond Seidelman and Edward J. Harpham , Disenchanted Realists ( Albany : State University of New York Press , 1985 ) , viii : " The APSA was founded toward the end of a decade of national interest group formation in the United ...

  • Persuasion in Society

    This new edition of Persuasion in Society continues to bring this core message to readers with updated case studies, examples, and sources.

  • Persuasion in Society

    This new edition of Persuasion in Society continues to bring this core message to readers with updated case studies, examples, and sources.

  • The Rhetorical Turn: Invention and Persuasion in the Conduct of Inquiry

    Concluding with four philosophical essays, this volume of case studies demonstrates how the inventive and persuasive dimensions of scholarly discourse point the way to forms of argument appropriate to our postmodern age.

  • Persuasion in Society

    This new edition of Persuasion in Society continues to bring this core message to readers with updated case studies, examples, and sources.