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1 online resource (xvi, 323 pages) |
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text file |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-309) and indexes. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
| Subject |
United States -- Politics and government -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
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United States. |
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Politics and government. |
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United States -- Politics and government -- Miscellanea.
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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Politicians -- United States -- Language.
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Politicians. |
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects. |
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Proverbs -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Proverbs -- Political aspects. |
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Proverbs. |
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Proverbs, American.
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Proverbs, American. |
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Electronic books. .
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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| Added Author |
Project Muse, distributor.
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| ISBN |
9780874215182 |
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9780874216226 paperback alkaline paper |
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0874216222 paperback alkaline paper |
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