Rhetoric Review Jul 2023

What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of … Well … Us? A Response to Richard Leo Enos about the Possibilities for a 21 st Century Rhetorical Education

Ryan Skinnell San Jose State University

Abstract

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 As I detail in the book I’m writing, Hitler received intensive, rhetorical training in public speaking and propaganda in the German military’s demobilization force after the First World War.2 He actually says there are six elements of eloquence, but the fifth entry in his enumeration is just a list of analogies he thinks are incontrovertible.

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Rhetoric Review
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2023-07-03
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10.1080/07350198.2023.2219879
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    “Why Has America Produced so Few Eloquent Orators in Recent Years? The Ancient Roman Marc…
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