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Proverbs Are The Best Policy Folk Wisdom And American Politics / Wolfgang Mieder. [print]

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, [(c)2005.; Baltimore, Maryland : Project MUSE, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 323 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780874215182
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E183 .M543 2005
  • E183.M631.P768 2005
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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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"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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