"Right makes might" : proverbs and the American worldview / Wolfgang Mieder.
""Right Makes Might"" is a collection of recent essays on historical and contemporary use of proverbs by American politicians, the American worldview, and American politics by globally recognized folklorist, Wolfgang Mieder.
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA :
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[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : 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.