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Speak Easy: A Guide to Successful Performances, Presentations, Speeches, and Lectures

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First two chapters provide comprehensive review of the fear of public speaking. If you have a serious problem with fear of speaking this is an excellent book to start with. The author slices and dices fear with great detail. The book provides considerable detail on handling your arrival on the stage and your exit. While other books may have a more complete review of speaking as a performance, this is a good beginning. If you really have something to say, the added polish of learning how to perform is probably good incremental advise. The almost mystical review of how to treat an audience seems to spin out of touch with the book's objectives. Empathy with the audience needs more treatment in this book than talking of it as energy work. About chapter six on How to Create a Performing Persona, the book runs out of steam. You will start wishing that the author would expand further on the topics. It becomes too cryptic.