Richard Miller

Gebundenes Buch

Fighting Words

Persuasive Strategies for War and Politics

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Savas Beatie
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 159mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 647g
• ISBN-13: 9781932714784
• ISBN-10: 1932714782
• Artikelnr.: 27964267