Proverbs Are The Best Policy Folk Wisdom And American Politics / Wolfgang Mieder.
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TextPublisher: Utah State University Press, Manufacturer: Project MUSE, Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 323 p.)ISBN: 9780874215182Subject(s): United States -- Politics and government -- Quotations, maxims, etc | United States -- Politics and government -- Miscellanea | Politicians -- United States -- Language | Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States | Proverbs -- Political aspects -- United States | Proverbs, AmericanGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 398.9/21/0973 LOC classification: E183 | .M54 2005Online resources: Full text available: | Item type | Current library | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-309) and indexes.
"Different strokes for different folks" : American proverbs as an international, national, and global phenomenon -- "Government of the people, by the people, for the people" : the making and meaning of an American proverb about democracy -- "God helps them who help themselves" : proverbial resolve in the letters of Abigail Adams -- "A house divided against itself cannot stand" : from biblical proverb to Abraham Lincoln and beyond -- "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" : Frederick Douglass's proverbial struggle for civil rights -- "It's not a president's business to catch flies" : proverbial rhetoric in presidential inaugural addresses -- "We are all in the same boat now" : proverbial discourse in the Churchill-Roosevelt correspondence -- "Good fences make good neighbors" : the sociopolitical significance of an ambiguous proverb.
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