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Proverbs are the best policy : folk wisdom and American politics /
Wolfgang Mieder, widely considered the world's greatest proverb scholar, here considers the role of proverbial speech on the American political stage from the Revolutionary War to the present. He begins his survey by discussing the origins and characteristics American proverbs and their spread...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press,
[2005]
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| Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "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.