TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mieder,Wolfgang
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Proverbs Are The Best Policy: Folk Wisdom And American Politics 
SN  - 9780874215182
AV  - E183 .M54 2005
U1  - 398.9/21/0973 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Logan, Utah
PB  - Utah State University Press
KW  - Politicians
KW  - United States
KW  - Language
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Proverbs
KW  - Proverbs, American
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Quotations, maxims, etc
KW  - Miscellanea
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-309) and indexes; "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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/9278/
ER  -