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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783377703321

Autore

Boller Paul F

Titolo

They never said it : a book of fake quotes, misquotes, and misleading attributions / / Paul F. Boller, Jr., John George

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1989

ISBN

0-19-987916-8

0-19-802222-0

1-280-52503-7

1-60129-775-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

GeorgeJohn H

Disciplina

082

Soggetti

Quotations

Errors and blunders, Literary

Literary curiosa

Literary forgeries and mystifications

Quotation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Adams, John; Addison, Joseph; Allen, Ethan; Armstrong, Neil; Beria, Lavrenti; Bible; Bogart, Humphrey; Boyer, Charles; Brezhnev, Leonid; Burke, Edmund; Butler, Samuel; Cagney, James; Cambronne, Pierre Jacques Etienne; Carlyle, Thomas; Cervantes, Miguel de; Churchill, Winston; Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Cohen, Israel; Colson, Charles; Communist Party Directive; Congreve, William; Coolidge, Calvin; Darwin, Charles; Devereux, James P. S.; Dimitrov, Georgi; Disraeli, Benjamin; Donaldson, Sam; Durocher, Leo; Edison, Thomas Alva; Eisenhower, Dwight D.; Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Fields, W. C.

Francis I; Franklin, Benjamin; Frietchie, Barbara; Gaither, Rowan; Galileo; Garbo, Greta; Garfield, James A.; Gaulle, Charles de; Gibbon, Edward; Gipp, George; Goering, Hermann; Goldwater, Barry M.; Goldwyn, Sam; Gordon, Sol; Greeley, Horace; Hall, Gus; Hecht, Ben; Hitler, Adolf; Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.; Holmes, Sherlock; Hoover, Herbert; Hopkins, Harry; Howard, Roy; Humanist Manifesto II; Ickes, Harold; Ingersoll, Robert G.; Jackson, Andrew; Japanese Government Memo;



Jefferson, Thomas; Jones, John Paul; Kant, Immanuel; Kautsky, Karl; Khrushchev, Nikita; Kissinger, Henry

Knights of Columbus; Lawrence, James; Lenin, Vladimir Ilyitch; Lincoln, Abraham; Long, Huey; Longworth, Alice Roosevelt; Louis XIV; Maguire, William A.; Mankiewicz, Herman; Manuilsky, Dimitri; Marie Antoinette; Marx, Groucho; Mather, Cotton; Napoleon I [Napoleon Bonaparte]; Nash, Ogden; Newton, Sir Isaac; Nixon, Richard M.; O'Hair, Madalyn Murray; Otis, James; Paine, Thomas; Pepys, Samuel; Pershing, John J.; Pétain, Marshal Henri Philippe; Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth; Prescott, William; The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion; Rabinovich, Rabbi Emanuel; Reagan, Ronald; Reed, John

Reuther, Walter; Rogers, Will; Roosevelt, Franklin D.; Rules for Revolution; Scholz, Jackson; Sévigné, Marquise de; Shaw, George Bernard; Sheridan, Philip; Sherman, William Tecumseh; Stalin, Josef; Sutton, Willie; Taft, Robert A.; Talmud; Tocqueville, Alexis de; Twain, Mark; Voltaire [Jean François Arouet]; Washington, George; Wellington, 1st Duke of; Wilson, Charles; Wilson, Woodrow; Wise, Stephen; Woollcott, Alexander; Zhou En-lai; Zinoviev, Grigori; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Abraham Lincoln never said, ""You cannot fool all the people all the time."" Thomas Jefferson never said, ""That government is best which governs least."" And Horace Greeley never said, ""Go west, young man."" In They Never Said It, Paul F. Boller, Jr. and John George examine hundreds of misquotations, incorrect attributions, and blatant fabrications, outlining the origins of the quotes and revealing why we should consign them to the historical trashcan.