Proverbs Are The Best Policy Folk Wisdom And American Politics /
Mieder, Wolfgang,
Proverbs Are The Best Policy Folk Wisdom And American Politics / [print] Wolfgang Mieder. - Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, [(c)2005. Baltimore, Maryland : Project MUSE, 2012. - 1 online resource (xvi, 323 pages) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
"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.
9780874215182
Politicians--Language.--United States
Proverbs--Political aspects--United States.
Proverbs, American.
Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.
United States--Politics and government--Miscellanea.
United States--Politics and government--Quotations, maxims, etc.
E183 / .M543 2005 E183.M631.P768 2005
Proverbs Are The Best Policy Folk Wisdom And American Politics / [print] Wolfgang Mieder. - Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, [(c)2005. Baltimore, Maryland : Project MUSE, 2012. - 1 online resource (xvi, 323 pages) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
"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.
9780874215182
Politicians--Language.--United States
Proverbs--Political aspects--United States.
Proverbs, American.
Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.
United States--Politics and government--Miscellanea.
United States--Politics and government--Quotations, maxims, etc.
E183 / .M543 2005 E183.M631.P768 2005