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Don't waste your money.
This book is mostly garbage. Table of content is 18 pages long (7% of the book). Another 17 pages (6% of the book) are wasted on supposed praise for the author. 60 pages (23% of the book) are wasted on a near useless workbook. On each page of this "workbook" are 2 questions that supposedly help you tweak your own content. For instance p. 165 reads "What is my 'Before' Message?" and "What does it sound like after applying the Power of 'We'?" the rest is white space. This format is used throughout this portion of the book. 29 pages (11%) are spent on a Speech writing checklist. Only 102 pages (39%) are what I would call "content". This content starts off good, but early on it seems that the author ceased to put in effort. He starts off by coving the "Rhyme as Reason Effect" and the scientific research behind it. But the remainder of the content is simply the author deconstructing 2 speeches by listing the techniques that the speaker used in each passage; not very informative.
March 2021 · Books · verified purchase