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Thank You for Arguing

Heinrichs, Jay

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Thank You for Arguing

JAY HEINRICHS has spent more than 25 years in publishing as a magazine writer, editor, and executive.

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Title of ebook: Thank You for Arguing
ISBN: 9780307450562
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Internet download file size: 295 kb
Released online for download: 02-12-2008
Author of eBook: Heinrichs, Jay

Thank You for Arguing

What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion
1. Open Your Eyes

THE INVISIBLE ARGUMENT

A personal tale of unresisted persuasion

Truth springs from argument among friends.--david hume

It is early in the morning and my seventeen-year-old son eats breakfast, giving me a narrow window to use our sole bathroom. I wrap a towel around my waist and approach the sink, avoiding the grim sight in the mirror; as a writer, I don't have to shave every day. (Marketers despairingly call a consumer like me a "low self-monitor.") I do have my standards, though, and hygiene is one. I grab toothbrush and toothpaste. The tube is empty. The nearest replacement sits on a shelf in our freezing basement, and I'm not dressed for the part.

"George!" I yell. "Who used all the toothpaste?"

A sarcastic voice answers from the other side of the door. "That's not the point, is it, Dad?" George says. "The point is how we're going to keep this from happening again."

He has me. I have told him countless times how the mo ... read full excerpt from Thank You for Arguing ebook