An edition of Proverbs are the best policy: folk wisdom and American politics
(2005)
Proverbs are the best policy
folk wisdom and American politics
by Wolfgang Mieder
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Proverbs are the best policy: folk wisdom and American politics
2005, Utah State University Press
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0874216222 9780874216226
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Table of 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and indexes.
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