Win Every Argument

An essential and practical guide to arguing, debating and public speaking from award-winning journalist, anchor, and expert debater, Mehdi Hasan.

A masterclass from one of the most formidable debaters and interviewers of our time

A tour de force! There is no better debater than Mehdi and this riveting read will help transform the most shy and retiring speaker into a charismatic polemicist. A masterclass

Mehdi Hasan relishes controversy and winning arguments. This is a combative and engaging ‘How To’ book for wannabe great performers in the studio and in public debate

Packed with tips and techniques, as well as insights into the historical importance of disputes, negotiations and rows. Dale Carnegie focused on friends but Hasan has written its contemporary equivalent: How to Win Arguments and Influence People

Whether it’s by the art of gentle persuasion or a full-on onslaught, if there’s one person who knows the art of winning an argument it’s the formidable Mehdi Hasan. I like to think I’m not bad at it, but I learned so much from reading this book

I refused to write this blurb for Mehdi Hasan. He won that argument! Now I am doing it. That’s how good he is at arguing! I’d better start reading, quick

A masterpiece of rhetorical argument and effective persuasion! From Demosthenes to Churchill, Cicero to Martin Luther King, Hasan lays bare the essential elements of how to delight, instruct, and move an audience

Mehdi is a generationally talented interviewer. He has mastered his craft and in this book he generously spills his secrets

Mehdi was one of the toughest interviews I did in the White House . . . includes the kind of specific advice and applicable tactics that will make readers want to finish the book and immediately go find a sparring partner

Inside our digital echo chambers, it is far too easy to forgo persuasion in favor of performance. Yet Hasan reminds us that we will never change the world unless we change people’s minds. An indispensable handbook for our high-stakes and polarized times

Hugely entertaining, deeply knowledgeable, and filled with illuminating tips and stories . . . Read this book to find your own voice while learning both the art and history of persuasion

Illuminating insights on persuasion. Readers will be won over by this perceptive guide

Impeccably timed, speaking to a moment when many people find themselves drawn into arguments . . . an entertaining primer on rhetorical techniques

This arguer-in-chief shares his hard-won insights

Mehdi Hasan is an award-winning British-American journalist, anchor and author of Win Every Argument . Hasan is the host of The Mehdi Hasan Show and has interviewed everyone from General Michael Flynn and Erik Prince, to Bernie Sanders and AOC, to John Legend. Hasan is a former columnist and podcaster at The Intercept , and his op-eds have also appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post . In Britain he was formerly the political editor of The New Statesman .