Thanks also to my agent, Ammi-Joan Paquette, for her enthusiasm and input on this project, and to my editor, Lisa Sandell, for her extraordinary work in the editing of this book, though I never see anything less from her.
The consequences of incendiary rhetoric are predictable. This is what author Helio Fred Garcia argues and warns us about in Words on Fire.
While in Jerusalem, the author sets out to learn more about her religion through women who specialize in teaching the Sacred Texts, and tries to balance her life between her...
The last viable form of rhetoric was as the output of the “propaganda apparatus” of the respective parties.2 For Tacitus, ... See, e.g., David L. Marshall, The Weimar Origins of Rhetorical Inquiry (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ...
Ranging from Cicero's Rome to contemporary politics, Words on Fire is a provocative rethinking of political eloquence for our time.
Armed with a list of institutions and the names of women who specialize in teaching these sacred texts, Ochs sets out on a journey of discovery.
Words on Fire offers a rich, engaging account of the history and evolution of the Yiddish language.
In June 1893, when Cossacks arrive abruptly at their door, Audra's parents insist that she flee, taking with her an important package and instructions for where to deliver it.
Words on Fire offers a rich, engaging account of the history and evolution of the Yiddish language. Drawing on almost thirty years of scholarship, prominent Yiddish scholar Dovid Katz traces...