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Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality
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Startling and witty analysis of the language of modern politics:
With Ben Goldacre, Poole is a model for political writing: eloquent, empirical rage.
The book's noticeably a product of the time - attacking New Labour and the Bush administration in particular - but its principles transfer.
UNSPEAK - a mode of speech that persuades by stealth, e.g., climate change [rather than global warming], war on terror [rather than war on Afghanistan], ethnic cleansing [rather than genocide], road map [rather than plan], community [rather than 'some self-elected representatives of a supposedly unified group'], 'barrier' [rather than 'wall' or 'checkpoint' or 'annexation'].
With Ben Goldacre, Poole is a model for political writing: eloquent, empirical rage.
The book's noticeably a product of the time - attacking New Labour and the Bush administration in particular - but its principles transfer.
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Reading Progress
Started Reading
2007
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Finished Reading
Started Reading
March, 2013
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Finished Reading
August 24, 2018
– Shelved
October 21, 2018
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