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They never said it : a book of fake quotes, misquotes, and misleading attributions

Title
They never said it : a book of fake quotes, misquotes, and misleading attributions / Paul F. Boller, Jr., John George.
Author
Boller, Paul F.
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

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Additional Authors
George, John H.
Description
xxv, 159 pages; 22 cm
Summary
Examines misquotations, incorrect attributions, and blatant fabrications.
Subject
  • Quotations
  • Errors and blunders, Literary
  • Literary curiosa
  • Literary forgeries and mystifications
  • Quotation
  • quotations (texts)
  • Errors and blunders, Literary
  • Literary curiosa
  • Literary forgeries and mystifications
  • Quotation
  • Quotations
  • Berühmte Persönlichkeit
  • Irrtum
  • Zitat
  • Literary forgeries
  • Errors
  • Zitat
  • Irrtum
Genre/Form
  • Quotation.
  • quotations (texts)
  • Quotations
  • Quotations.
  • Citations.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-151) and index.
Contents
  • Adams, John -- Addison, Joseph -- Allen, Ethan -- Armstrong, Neil -- Beria, Lavrenti -- Bible -- Bogart, Humphrey -- Boyer, Charles -- Brezhnev, Leonid -- Burke, Edmund -- Butler, Samuel -- Cagney, James -- Cambronne, Pierre Jacques Etienne -- Carlyle, Thomas -- Cervantes, Miguel de -- Churchill, Winston -- Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Cohen, Israel -- Colson, Charles -- Communist Party Directive -- Congreve, William -- Coolidge, Calvin.
  • Darwin, Charles -- Devereux, James P.S. -- Dimitrov, Georgi -- Disraeli, Benjamin -- Donaldson, Sam -- Durocher, Leo -- Edison, Thomas Alva -- EIsenhower, Dwight D. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Fields, W.C. -- Francis I -- Franklin, Benjamin -- Frietchie, Barbara -- Gaither, Rowan -- Galileo -- Garbo, Greta -- Garfield, James A. -- Gaulle, Charles de -- Gibbon, Edward -- Gipp, George -- Goering, Hermann -- Goldwater, Barry M. -- Goldwyn, Sam -- Gordon, Sol -- Greeley, Horace.
  • Hall, Gus -- Hecht, Ben -- Hitler, Adolf -- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. -- Holmes, Sherlock -- Hoover, Herbert -- Hopkins, Harry -- Howard, Roy -- Humanist Manifesto II -- Ickes, Harold -- Ingersoll, Robert G. -- Jackson, Andrew -- Japanese Government memo -- Jefferson, Thomas -- Jones, John Paul -- Kant, Immanuel -- Kautsky, Karl -- Khrushchev, Nikita -- Kissinger, Henry -- Knights of Columbus.
  • Lawrence, James -- Lenin, Vladimir Illyitch -- Lincoln, Abraham -- Long, Huey -- Longworth, Alice Roosevelt -- Louis XIV -- Maguire, William A. -- Mankiewicz, Herman -- Manuilsky, Dimitri -- Marie Antoinette -- Marx, Groucho -- Mather, Cotton -- Napoleon I [Napoleon Bonaparte] -- Nash, Ogden -- Newton, Sir Isaac -- Nixon, Richard m. -- O'Hair, Madalyn Murray -- Otis, James.
  • Paine, Thomas -- Pepys, Samuel -- Pershing, John J. -- Petain, marshal Henri Philippe -- Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth -- Prescott, William, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion -- Rabinovich, Rabbi Emanuel -- Reagan, Ronald -- Reed, John -- Reuther, Walter -- Rogers, Will -- Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- Rules for Revolution.
  • Scholz, Jackson -- Sevigne, Marquise de -- Shaw, George Bernard -- Sheridan, Philip -- Sherman, William Tecumseh -- Stalin, Josef -- Sutton, Willie -- Taft, Robert A. -- Talmud -- Tocqueville, Alexis de -- Twain, Mark -- Voltaire [Jean Francois Arouet] -- Washington, George -- Wellington, 1st Duke of -- Wilson, Charles -- Wilson, Woodrow -- Wise, Stephen -- Woollcott, Alexander -- Zhou En-lai -- Zinoviev, Grigori.
ISBN
  • 0195055411
  • 9780195055412
  • 0195064690
  • 9780195064698
LCCN
88022115
OCLC
  • ocm18292227
  • 18292227
  • SCSB-1723381
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library