📚 Debates and Debating

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with debates and debating on their catalogue record, first published between 1855 and 2021, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject debates and debating in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,830 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Parliamentary debates (Hansard)	Great Britain Parliament House of Commons	1945	64
Pocket manual of rules of order	Henry M. Robert	1940	31
The aims of argument	Timothy W. Crusius	1994	22
The Uses of Adversity	Timothy Garton Ash	1989	21
Argumentation and debate	Austin J. Freeley	1961	20
Elements of Argument	Annette T. Rottenberg	1985	18
Writing arguments	John D. Ramage	1989	17
Argumentation and debating	William Trufant Foster	1908	16
Advocacy and opposition	Karyn C. Rybacki	1986	10
Debaters' manual	Edith M. Phelps	1915	9
Modern Debate	Arthur N. Kruger	1960	9
Pros and cons	Trevor Sather	1999	9
Public Policy Argumentation and Debate	Philip Dalton	2012	9
The American debater	James N. McElligott	1855	7
Public speaking and debate	George Jacob Holyoake	1895	7
Strategic debate	Roy V. Wood	1968	7
Perspectives on argument	Nancy V. Wood	1995	7
References for literary workers	Henry Matson	1892	6
The essentials of argumentation	Elias J. MacEwan	1898	6
How to debate	Harrison Boyd Summers	1940	6
Decision by debate	Douglas Ehninger	1963	6
Logical self-defense	Johnson, Ralph H.	1977	6
The shape of reason	John T. Gage	1986	6
Art of Always Being Right	Arthur Schopenhauer	2008	6
Politics of Parliamentary Debate	Sven-Oliver Proksch	2014	6
Local Theories of Argument	Dale Hample	2021	6
Debate index	Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh	1911	5
Fallacies	John Hayden Woods	1989	5
Elements of Argument	Annette T. Rottenberg	2005	5
Thinking from A to Z	Nigel Warburton	2007	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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