How to Argue and Win Every Time by Gerry Spence

How to Argue and Win Every Time（audiobook mininova下载）的作者Gerry Spence也许是美国最著名、最传奇的律师——从1969年开始，他从未打输过哪怕一场官司。他的成名辩护案是上个世纪七十年代的Silkwood Case——最终索赔金额超过一千万美元。这个著名的案件后来被改编成电影《Silkwood》(mininova下载）。

Larry King对这本书的评价是：

“How to Argue and Win Every Time is more than just a book about argument; it’s the outline on how to live.”

How to Argue and Win Every Time 内容简介：

Gerry Spence, the noted trial lawyer, says we were born to make the winning argument as we were born to walk. But argument is an art as well as a technique to be learned. The winning argument starts with a mindset, one that gives you permission to argue freely when argument has been the forbidden fruit of your childhood. Spence teaches you how to get beyond the fear and to use this fear as your ally. He shows you that when your argument emerges from your own authority, the argument will not only be the winning argument, it will be unique among all arguments.

But delivering the winning argument demands polished technique. With his surefire program Spence instructs readers in the rules of the game and provides the tools needed to achieve successful results. To win, says Spence:

* Disarm an opponent by listening to the other side of the argument
* Realize that words are often weapons of combat
* Decide when to argue and when not to argue
* Embrace the soul and argue out of the heart zone
* Unlock the internal prisoner that prevents you from achieving victory

So you want to know how to compose the argument, to prepare it, and to deliver what Spence calls the “magical argument”? It is all here with much more. Packed with stories and plenty of winning arguments for any situation, How to Argue and Win Every Time contains an abundance of insights and wisdom gleaned by the author from a rich lifetime in and out of the courtroom. At last, it is as much a book on successful living as it is the long-sought treatise by the winningest trial lawyer in America on how to argue successfully anywhere, any time.

First, attorneys Gerry Spence and Floyd Abrams discuss the latest twists in the O.J. Simpson trial, First Amendment law, and Spence’s book “How to Argue and Win Every Time”. Then, Lawrence Ellison, co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major software company, talks about the information superhighway, technology, and the business of computers. Finally, a conversation with biographer Tad Szulc on his unauthorized look at the life of Pope John Paul II, “Pope John Paul II: The Biography”.