Proverbs Are The Best Policy : Folk Wisdom And American Politics / Wolfgang Mieder.
| Author/creator |
Mieder, Wolfgang |
| Other author/creator | Project Muse. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2005. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015) |
| Description | 1 online resource (xvi, 323 pages ) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available: |
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| Series | Book collections on Project MUSE. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-309) and indexes. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2005018275 |
| ISBN | 9780874215182 |
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