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You can chop them in half and the torso will crawl after you, arms reaching for your ankles to bring you down. They freeze in winter, but then thaw and come at you again in the spring. They are slow and uncoordinated and announce their presence with moans. They are utterly fearless and solely bent on attacking humans and consuming flesh – infecting and converting into zombies any injured who escape a mauling. That or decay but that takes years and in colder climes decades. Only destroying their brains (“aim for the head!”) can kill them. They are impervious to trauma, to the elements, and even can function under water at great depths. The zombies themselves are human victims of a highly contagious virus (origin unknown) that quickly kills the infected and then “reanimates” them into walking dead.

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World War Z: An Oral History Of The Zombie War is just that: nothing more than a series of interviews conducted by a narrator, who is identified as an agent of the UN Postwar Commission, relaying the experiences of various participants from all over the world in different stages of an apocalyptic zombie war now ended. As such it is a much more intriguing read and one I highly recommend. But in fact this book is nothing like that.

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Having seen the movie trailers (as of this writing I have yet to watch it) I was expecting a traditional story line with main character(s) – I assume Brad Pitt’s role – villain, plot twist, crisis, hero wins in the end, beats the bad guy zombies and saves the world. I picked up the book at my beloved Town Book Store as an afterthought.

Although the book is seven years old, it’s recently been thrust back into the limelight because of the new Brad Pitt blockbuster film World War Z. It was in the spirit of Terkel’s works (acknowledged with reverence by the author) that Max Brooks penned his 2006 novel: World War Z: An Oral History Of The Zombie War.

Chapter 36: Appendix 3.In 1985 Louis “Studs” Terkel published a Pulitzer Prize-winning book: “The Good War”: An Oral History Of World War Two, which detailed ordinary peoples’ accounts of this country’s involvement in the war.

Facsimile of the Outline of “The Rhetorical Situation”

Chapter 20: Spiritualization (the Nostrum).

The War of Words illuminates the study of modern rhetoric even as it deepens our understanding of post–World War II politics. This authoritative edition includes an introduction from the editors explaining the compositional history and cultural contexts of both The War of Words and A Rhetoric of Motives. Discouraging militarism during the Cold War even as it catalogues belligerent persuasive strategies and tactics that remain in use today, The War of Words reveals how popular news media outlets can, wittingly or not, foment international tensions and armaments during tumultuous political periods. Here, at last, is the second volume, the until-now unpublished War of Words, where Burke brilliantly exposes the rhetorical devices that sponsor war in the name of peace. Whereas the third part, A Symbolic of Motives, was never finished, A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950) have become canonical theoretical documents.Ī Rhetoric of Motives was originally intended to be a two-part book. When Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated “Motivorum” project in the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts.

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