Although it was written more than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle's Rhetoric remains the classic work on the methods of persuasion. You can access the full text of the Rhetoric on the Web at http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/rhetoric.html. For links to more than 18,000 other electronic books, check the Online Books Page at http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books.

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