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Mark Thompson is CEO of the New York Times and has served as Chief Executive of Channel 4 and Director General of the BBC. In 2012 he was a visiting professor of rhetoric and the art of public persuasion at the University of Oxford.<b>[A] superb book</b>… Thompson’s own experience in the media is brilliantly deployed throughout for insight… Thompson is a sharp and entertaining analyst of political language itself.
- Steven Poole, Guardian
He writes restlessly and compellingly… [An] intricately but also urgently argued book.
- John Lloyd, Financial Times
Thompson’s great virtue in this book is his steady and cool-headed historicism… <b>Thompson is lucid, well read, level-headed and thoughtful</b>. His range of reference is wide…He has a robust familiarity with the history of scholarship on rhetoric, and scatters his text with easeful and on-point references to Max Weber, Martin Heidegger and Marshall McLuhan… The detail is excellent. <i>Enough Said’</i>s particular glories, to this reader, are Thompson’s frequent and sensitive close readings of particular instances of public language.
- Sam Leith, Prospect
<b>[An] important study</b> ... [Thompson] usually advances his case in cool, nuanced and forensic prose, but he is a blistering flame-thrower about the consequences of the digital revolution.
- Andrew Rawnsley, Observer
Ranging masterfully from Aristotle and Pericles to the age of Trump and Twitter, Mark Thompson makes the case for political rhetoric as a democratic art. This <b>vividly-written</b>, trenchant book is a <b>much-needed</b> antidote to the miasma of spin, incivility, and "truthiness" that afflicts politics today.
- Michael Sandel, author of What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets,