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Proverbs are the best policy [electronic resource] : folk wisdom and American politics / Wolfgang Mieder.

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Wolfgang Mieder, widely considered the world's greatest proverb scholar, here considers the role of proverbial speech on the American political stage from the Revolutionary War to the present. He begins his survey by discussing the origins and characteristics American proverbs and their spread...

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Main Author: Mieder, Wolfgang
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
United States > Politics and government > Miscellanea.
United States > Politics and government > Quotations, maxims, etc.
Proverbs, American.
Proverbs > Political aspects > United States.
Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States.
Politicians > United States > Language.
Politics and government.
Politicians > Language.
Proverbs > Political aspects.
Rhetoric > Political aspects.
United States.
Miscellanea.
Quotations.
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Proverbs are the best policy folk wisdom and American politics / by Mieder, Wolfgang

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