I’m delighted to tell you that my new book, How to Think Like Plato and Speak Like Cicero, is now out in ebook, paperback, and hardback.

Those first readers and reviews will be critical to the long term success of the book, so I hope you’ll give it a look.

Now let me tell you what’s in it for you….

Every fool can think and speak, or so they think, but you’ll be far ahead by taking a few tips from the greatest minds that ever lived.

How to Think Like Plato and Speak Like Cicero may look like two books in one, one on thinking and another on speaking. It is, in fact, a little more than that, since it also looks at the close but fraught relationship between these two profoundly, pre-eminently human activities.

Thinking, however brilliant it may be, is of little use unless it can be communicated to others in such a way that they will be carried by it. Compared to reason, rhetoric may be cheap and manipulative. But it is a necessary evil if we are to achieve worthwhile aims in the world, or simply counter the destructive tendencies of the modern-day sophists.

Although he had scant regard for sophists and other self-interested bamboozlers, Plato did concede that truth is more persuasive when allied with rhetoric, and that dialectic and rhetoric ought to go hand in hand, since ‘he who would deceive others, and not be deceived, must exactly know the real likenesses and differences of things.’

Do you want to have all the best arguments? Do you want others to buy into them? Do you want to make an even greater impact and difference? … In which case, start reading.

Early editorial reviews have been uniformly positive. Here are some snippets:

A brilliant synthesis of classical philosophy and rhetoric that is urgently needed in this age of misinformation. —KC Finn, USA Today best-selling author

Whether you’re a novice or someone already knee-deep in debate, this is a guide for everyone. Very highly recommended. —Jamie Michele, award-winning author

A surprisingly engaging and relevant look at the wisdom of the ancients. —CR Hurst, author and teacher of writing