Here's the book to help you cut through all the fallacies inconsistencies, and outright nonsense you read and hear every day. Howard Kahane's LOGIC AND CONTEMPORARY RHETORIC has already shown thousands of political science, logie. English, and communications students how to use critical reasoning techniques successfully in their daily lives Iconoclastic and always interesting to read, Kahane exposes the most common fallacies used in politics, the mass media, textbooks, and everyday conversation.