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008			181016t20192019inu b 001 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aE183 _b.M543 2019
100	1		_aMieder, Wolfgang,
245	1	0	_a"Right makes might" : _bproverbs and the American worldview / _cWolfgang Mieder.
264		1	_aBloomington, Indiana, USA : _bIndiana University Press, _c[2019]
264		4	_c©2019.
300			_axvii, 375 pages ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction : ruminations on authentically American proverbs -- "Let us have faith that right makes might" : proverbial rhetoric in decisive moments of American politics -- "These are the times that try women's souls" : the proverbial rhetoric for women's rights by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony -- "The American people rose to the occasion" : a proverbial retrospective of the Marshall Plan after seventy years -- "Making a way out of no way" : Martin Luther King's proverbial dream for human rights -- "Keep your eyes on the prize" : Congressman John Lewis's proverbial odyssey for civil rights -- "I'm absolutely sure about the golden rule" : Barack Obama's proverbial audacity of hope -- "Politics is not a spectator sport" : proverbs in the personal and political writings of Hillary Rodham Clinton -- "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" : Bernie Sanders's proverbial rhetoric for an American sociopolitical revolution -- "M(R)ight makes r(m)ight" : the sociopolitical history of a contradictory proverb pair -- "All men are created equal" : from democratic claim to proverbial game -- "Laissez faire à Georges" and "Let George do it" : a case of paremiological polygenesis -- "To be (all) Greek to someone" : origin, history, and meaning of an English proverbial expression.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _vMiscellanea.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _vQuotations, maxims, etc.
650		0	_aProverbs, American _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aProverbs _xPolitical aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aPolitical oratory _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aRhetoric _xPolitical aspects _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aPoliticians _zUnited States _xLanguage.
650		0	_aNational characteristics, American.
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