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Article: Rhetorical leadership and transferable lessons for successful social advocacy in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.
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- Argumentation and Advocacy
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- September 22, 2007
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Al Gore's 2006 film about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, met with great popular and critical success. The film weaves together the story of Gore's early conversion and lifelong commitment to environmental issues as the unifying theme of his long political career and a presentation of Gore's standard fact-filled, deliberative lecture on the veracity and dangers of climate change. This political documentary's lifetime gross earnings make it the third highest ranked film in its class to date ("Documentary--Political, 1982-Present," n.d.). The film was widely shown free of charge at churches and schools around the country and garnered high marks in critical reviews on ...
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Article: "INCONVENIENT TRUTH' TOUR VISITS CNY; GORE ...
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);
April 27, 2007 ;
700+ words
... ... writer Al Gore delivered ... brought his An Inconvenient Truth tour to about ... snowstorms. Among Gore's points ... documentary, An Inconvenient Truth : 400 million ... he became a Gore fan after seeing An Inconvenient Truth. You can ...
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