Proverbs Are the Best Policy: Folk Wisdom and American Politics

by Wolfgang Mieder

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 across the globe hand in hand with America's international political role. He then looks at the history of the defining proverb of American democracy, "government...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874216222
• ISBN13: 9780874216226
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"