Proverbs Are The Best Policy : Folk Wisdom And American Politics /
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press,
2005.
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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.