My copy is from 1990 or so.

Don't even need it. Just have an AI tool summarize it, provide up-to-date examples, show where the arguments are overstated, list unaddressed areas for further development, and create flashcards and podcasts.

With a book like that, you don't even need to provide the source material.

Wouldn't necessarily call it a lie. More like implicature or maybe "Gricean expectation engineering".

A bit ironic, your comment could be viewed as using a similar technique. Given the ongoing controversy around water consumption in datacenters, choosing this particular example implicitly associates people raising concerns about datacenter water use with deceptive rhetorical practices, without actually making that argument explicitly or presenting a concrete context in which the supposed rhetorical device was used.

Of course, that's not necessarily your intention, only a point about implicatures.

Corrected, thanks, though a 1954 copy, but a lot of copies online. A good one, nevertheless (i.e., something you might actually pay for a paper copy).

Why not? Darrell Huff died in 2001, and under any respectable copyright system his work would have ended up in the public domain in 1979, or at least with his death.

Tell that to Claude.