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Utah State University Press
Language
English

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Subjects
Politics and government, Proverbs, Rhetoric, Language, Political aspects of Proverbs, Miscellanea, Quotations, maxims, American Proverbs, Politicians, Political aspects of Rhetoric, Politicians, united states, United states, politics and government, miscellanea
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United States

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Proverbs are the best policy: folk wisdom and American politics
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and indexes.

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Logan, Utah
Genre
Miscellanea., Quotations, maxims, etc.

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Dewey Decimal Class
398.9/21/0973
Library of Congress
E183 .M54 2005, E183.M54 2005

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL3403196M
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proverbsarebestp0000mied
ISBN 10
0874216222
ISBN 13
9780874216226
LCCN
2005018275
OCLC/WorldCat
61204246
Library Thing
7051370
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6000682

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