Proverbs Are The Best Policy : Folk Wisdom And American Politics /
Mieder, Wolfgang.
Proverbs Are The Best Policy : Folk Wisdom And American Politics / Wolfgang Mieder. - 1 online resource (339 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
Open Access
9780874215182
Politicians--Language.--United States
Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.
Proverbs--Political aspects--United States.
Proverbs, American.
United States--Politics and government--Quotations, maxims, etc.
United States--Politics and government--Miscellanea.
Electronic books.
E183 / .M54 2005
398.9/21/0973
Proverbs Are The Best Policy : Folk Wisdom And American Politics / Wolfgang Mieder. - 1 online resource (339 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
Open Access
9780874215182
Politicians--Language.--United States
Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.
Proverbs--Political aspects--United States.
Proverbs, American.
United States--Politics and government--Quotations, maxims, etc.
United States--Politics and government--Miscellanea.
Electronic books.
E183 / .M54 2005
398.9/21/0973