Richard Weaver: 7 books

Dawn over the Arroyo Seco (the Rose Bowl) finds two homeless buddies starting their day with a boot kick in the ass and the security patrol order to “Move on!”Wiggie and Fargone take the reader on a day’s and night’s journey inside their meandering lives, filled with whimsy, humor,...

Billy Straw’s in real trouble. He’s returned from the Vietnam war a broken man. He’s arrested for rioting at a Veterans Job Fair. He associates with two brothers, criminals, and becomes involved with anti-war radicals which draws the attention of the FBI. He can’t hold a job or a relationship...

Tells how to choose the right breed for your personality and hunting and includes training tips for housebreaking and basic living commands Techniques for introducing the gun, achieving staunchness on point, and advanced field quartering and retrieving Preventing problem behaviors of deer chasing, blinking,...

Training Your Pointing Dog for Hunting and Home tells how to develop an obedient gun dog that is also an affectionate family companion, with training schedules and advice on everything from handling a newborn pup to teaching advanced field techniques and finely tuned pointing manners. The book presents...

In The Ethics of Rhetoric, Richard M. Weaver evaluates the ethical and cultural role of rhetoric and its reflection on society. Weaver draws upon classical notions of rhetoric in Plato’s Phaedrus, and he examines the effectiveness and implications of the manipulation of language in the works of...

Originally published in 1948, at the height of post–World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses “words hard as cannonballs” to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read and debated at the time of its first publication,the...

Weaver's Ethics of Rhetoric, originally published in 1953, has been called his most important statement on the ethical and cultural role of rhetoric. A strong advocate of cultural conservatism, Weaver (1910-1953) argued strongly for the role of liberal studies in the face of what he saw as the encroachments...