The Decline of Rhetoric.

I just picked up John McWhorter's Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music - and here is a link to the book's website - which is discussed in this Aramvirique post. So far, and I'm only into the introduction, the book reads well. It is well written and makes a fair points that while linguistic change being inevitable, there does seem to have been a "sea-change" in rhetoric and culture that can be traced to the 1960s. Should be interesting.