Now Don't Try to Reason with Me

Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age

Booth Wayne C.

In this entertaining collection of essays, Wayne Booth looks for the much-maligned "middle ground" for reason – a rhetoric that can unite truths of the heart with truths of the head and allow us all to discover shared convictions in mutual inquiry. First delivered as lectures in the 1960s, when Booth was a professor at Earlham College and the University of Chicago, "Now Don't Try to Reason with Me" still resounds with anyone struggling for consensus in a world of us versus them.

About the Author

Wayne C. Booth (1921-2005) was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. His many books include "The Rhetoric of Fiction" and "For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals", both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Reviews

"Professor Booth's earnestness is graced by wit, irony, and generous humor" – Louis Coxe, New Republic

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