Title Proverbs are the best policy : folk wisdom and American politics / Wolfgang Mieder.

Imprint	Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, [2005]
	©2005

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LOCATION	CALL #	STATUS
2nd FL Humanities Library Books	E183 .M54 2005	Available

Collation	xvi, 323 pages ; 23 cm
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Bibliog.	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.
Subject	Proverbs, American.
	Proverbs -- Political aspects -- United States.
	Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States.
	Politicians -- United States -- Language.
	United States -- Politics and government -- Miscellanea.
	United States -- Politics and government -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
ISBN	0874216222 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN/ISSN	9780874216226