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050 0 4 _aE183.P964.P768 2005
100 1 _aMieder, Wolfgang,
_e1
245 1 0 _aProverbs Are The Best Policy
_bFolk Wisdom And American Politics /
_cWolfgang Mieder.
_hPR
260 _aLogan, Utah :
_bUtah State University Press,
_c(c)2005.
264 3 _aBaltimore, Maryland :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2012.
300 _a1 online resource (xvi, 323 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _adata file
_2rda
504 _a1 (pages 297-309) and indexes.
505 0 0 _a"Different strokes for different folks" : American proverbs as an international, national, and global phenomenon ; --
_t"Government of the people, by the people, for the people" : the making and meaning of an American proverb about democracy ; --
_t"God helps them who help themselves" : proverbial resolve in the letters of Abigail Adams ; --
_t"A house divided against itself cannot stand" : from biblical proverb to Abraham Lincoln and beyond ; --
_t"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" : Frederick Douglass's proverbial struggle for civil rights ; --
_t"It's not a president's business to catch flies" : proverbial rhetoric in presidential inaugural addresses ; --
_t"We are all in the same boat now" : proverbial discourse in the Churchill-Roosevelt correspondence ; --
_t"Good fences make good neighbors" : the sociopolitical significance of an ambiguous proverb.
650 0 _aPoliticians
_zUnited States
_xLanguage.
650 0 _aProverbs
_xPolitical aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aProverbs, American.
650 0 _aRhetoric
_xPolitical aspects
_zUnited States.
700 1 _aProject Muse,
_e1
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _uhttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ciu.edu?url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/9278/
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_i2020-12-16
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_bCynthia Snell
_c1
_dCynthia Snell