Political Rhetoric in Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2023), edited by Boston College Behrakis Professor in Hellenic Political Studies Robert Bartlett and Associate Professor of Political Science Nasser Behnegar, is an introduction to the art of rhetoric (persuasive speaking). A collection of primary sources, it combines classic statements of the theory of political rhetoric (Aristotle, Isocrates, Demosthenes, Cicero) with an array of political speeches, from Socrates to Martin Luther King Jr., Pericles to Richard Nixon, Sojourner Truth to Phyllis Schlafly. These speeches exemplify not only the three principal kinds of rhetoric–judicial, deliberative, and epideictic–but also the principal rhetorical proofs. From the publisher: “At a time when the practice of democracy and democratic deliberation are much in question, this book seeks to encourage the serious study of rhetoric by making available important examples of it, in both its noblest and its most scurrilous forms.”