Proverbs are the best policy
Subtitle: folk wisdom and American politics
By: Wolfgang Mieder.
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Logan, Utah
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780874216226
Subjects: 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.
Genres: Miscellanea.; Quotations, maxims, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.  ) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: "Different strokes for different folks" : American proverbs as an international, national, and global phenomenon; title: "Government of the people, by the people, for the people" : the making and meaning of an American proverb about democracy; title: "God helps them who help themselves" : proverbial resolve in the letters of Abigail Adams; title: "A house divided against itself cannot stand" : from biblical proverb to Abraham Lincoln and beyond; title: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" : Frederick Douglass's proverbial struggle for civil rights; title: "It's not a president's business to catch flies" : proverbial rhetoric in presidential inaugural addresses; title: "We are all in the same boat now" : proverbial discourse in the Churchill-Roosevelt correspondence; title: "Good fences make good neighbors" : the sociopolitical significance of an ambiguous proverb.