Politics of Proverbs: From Traditional Wisdom to Proverbial Stereotypes

by Wolfgang Mieder

Book Overview

Proverbs, though anonymous, speak with great authority, and politicians from classical to modern times have deployed them effectively in their rhetoric. In looking at political proverbs in the twentieth century, Wolfgang Mieder--the leading expert on proverbs today--offers proof of the power of these bits of borrowed wisdom to serve any master or any purpose, for good or ill.
Mieder first singles out Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, in which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299154548
• ISBN13: 9780299154547
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"