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International Standard Book Number 9781611210521
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9781932714784
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Classification number BF637.P4 -- M55 2010eb
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Miller, Richard.
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Title Fighting Words :
Remainder of title Persuasive Strategies for War and Politics.
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Edition statement 1st ed.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Havertown :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Savas Beatie,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2010.
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Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice ©2010.
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Extent 1 online resource (384 pages)
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Formatted contents note Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section One -- Chapter One The Meme Becomes the Man: Grant in the Wilderness -- Chapter Two Living Symbols: Pope Urban II Calls for the First Crusade -- Chapter Three George Washington Quells the Newburgh Mutiny -- Section Two -- Chapter Four Patton Maintains his Memes: Thespian in Uniform -- Chapter Five The Directors: Sam Houston (and "Deaf" Smith) at San Jacinto -- Chapter Six Failing Performer: Alexander the Great at the Hyphasis River -- Section Three -- Chapter Seven General David H. Petraeus Assumes Command -- Chapter Eight Midst-of-Battle Speech: Petraeus as Therapist-in-Chief -- Chapter Nine Petraeus Bids Farewell: The Final Narrative -- Section Four -- Chapter Ten John Pope and the Failure to Transcend Self -- Chapter Eleven Stand or Die: General Walton Walker in Korea -- Chapter Twelve Beyond Rhetoric: Evil and the Failure of Battle Speeches -- Section Five -- Chapter Thirteen Cut and Paste: The Origin of Two Modern Speechlets -- Chapter Fourteen A Long Journey: From Recollection to Legend -- Chapter Fifteen The Short Journey of a Modern Speechlet: "Last" Words to Immortal Words -- Section Six -- Chapter Sixteen Assumption of Command: Inaugural Address, January 20, 2009 -- Chapter Seventeen Midst-of-Battle Speech: Health Care and the Address to Congress, September 9, 2009 -- Chapter Eighteen The Military Eulogy: Commemorating the Slain of Fort Hood, November 10, 2009 -- Conclusion -- Appendix An Interview with Author Richard F. Miller -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Summary, etc. In 'Fighting Words', award-winning author Richard F. Miller (In Words and Deeds) looks to some of history's most successful battle speechmakers to answer the age-old question of how. How did Pope Urban II's speech convince tens of thousands of Europeans to wage the First Crusade, a dangerous, and for many, a one-way journey to Jerusalem? How did George Patton's speech transform the green kids of the Third Army into the terror of the Third Reich? How did the words of General David Petraeus resurrect a losing effort in Iraq and in the process, retrain his soldiers for a new kind of war?Miller argues that human persuasion is seamless and that the persuasive strategies by which men (and increasingly women) are recruited, trained, and exhorted for war can be applied to politics and business.For those who manage-whether a convenience store or a Fortune 500 company-motivating, instructing, and preparing your people to perform their jobs is, for the competent manager, Job One. And for those who recognize that in this partisan age, politics is just war by other means, 'Fighting Words' applies the insights of battle speeches to politics. Miller concludes his study by analyzing three of President Obama's most successful and controversial speeches based on the lessons learned from the great military motivators of history. What did the president do right? What did he do wrong? What can he do better?Miller doesn't speculate about "what works" on the public podium. Rather, he analyzes real historical examples and extracts their lessons-from Alexander the Great to General David H. Petraeus and President Obama. As Miller aptly demonstrates, persuasive strategies based on love, hate, duty, patriotism, comradeship, fear, and shame are as widely used today as they were in antiquity.'Fighting Words' offers a catalog of time-tested, effective speaking strategies whose
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Summary, etc. double-edged usefulness extends far beyond any battlefield.About the Author: Historian and journalist Richard F. Miller is a graduate of Harvard College (AB, 1974) and Case Western Reserve University School of Law (JD, 1977.) He has served four stints as an embedded journalist: aboard the USS Kitty Hawk (2003); with the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment in Fallujah, Iraq (2005); with the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division near Baqubah, Iraq (2006), and most recently, with the 101st Airborne at various posts in eastern Afghanistan (2008). Miller is a Fellow at the Massachusetts Historical Society and a Director of New England Quarterly, Inc. He is the author of In Words and Deeds: Battle Speeches in History (2008), and the award-winning Harvard's Civil War: The History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (2007).
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Local note Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Persuasion (Psychology).
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Leadership.
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Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
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Relationship information Print version:
Main entry heading Miller, Richard
Title Fighting Words
Place, publisher, and date of publication Havertown : Savas Beatie,c2010
International Standard Book Number 9781932714784
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3007439">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3007439</a>
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