Proverbs Are The Best Policy : Folk Wisdom And American Politics /

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主要作者: Mieder, Wolfgang
格式: 电子 电子书
语言:英语
出版: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2005.
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书本目录:
  • "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.