An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language: Learn to Hear What's Left Unsaid

This is a book for every thinking person, the perfect antidote to today's culture wars.'Hope Jahren The creators ofAn Illustrated Book of Bad Argumentsreturn with this desperately timely guide to how words can trick us. Learn to ';hear' hidden bias, slant, and spinfrom an irresistible cast of woodland creatures! Public discourse? More like public discord. The battle cries of our culture wars are rife with ';loaded language'be it bias, slant, or spin. But listen closely, or you'll miss what Ali Almossawi finds more frightening still: words that erase accountability, history, even identity through what they leave unsaid. Speaking as wise old Mr. Rabbit, Almossawi leads us through a dark forest of rhetoricaided by Orwell, Baldwin, and a squee-worthy cast of wide-eyed woodland creatures. Here, passive voice can pardon wrongdoers, statistics may be a smokescreen, gaslighting entraps the downtrodden, andirrelevant adjectives cement stereotypes. Emperor Squirrel isn't naked; he has a clothes-free sartorial style. Mouse's roof becomes flattened (Elephant's foot just happens to be there at the time). And when keen-eyed Owl claims a foreign shore, he seems to be overlooking someone . Fans of Almossawi's An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments couldn't ask for a better primer on the less logical ways that words can trick us. It takes a long pair of ears to hear what's left unsaidbut when you're a rabbit in a badger world, listening makes all the difference.