TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mieder,Wolfgang
AU  - Project Muse
TI  - Proverbs Are The Best Policy: Folk Wisdom And American Politics 
SN  - 9780874215182
AV  - E183 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Baltimore, Maryland
PB  - Project MUSE
KW  - Politicians
KW  - United States
KW  - Language
KW  - Proverbs
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Proverbs, American
KW  - Rhetoric
N1  - 1 (pages 297-309) and indexes; "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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