- Description
- 1 online resource (xvi, 323 p.)
- Uniform Title
- Proverbs are the best policy (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Proverbs are the best policy (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-309) and indexes.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2005018275
- OCLC
- ssj0000229765
- Author
Mieder, Wolfgang.
- Title
Proverbs are the best policy [electronic resource] : folk wisdom and American politics / Wolfgang Mieder.
- Imprint
Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, c2005.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-309) and indexes.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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