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

• Autore: Boller Paul F
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (186 p.)
• Disciplina: 082
• Soggetto topico: Quotations; Errors and blunders, Literary; Literary curiosa; Literary forgeries and mystifications; Quotation
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: GeorgeJohn H
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• 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 IFranklin, 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 ColumbusLawrence, 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, WalterRogers, 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. Many of the misquotes are quite harmless. Some are inadvertent misquotes that have become popular (Shakespeare actually said, ""The best part
• Titolo autorizzato: They never said it
• ISBN: 0-19-802222-0; 1-280-52503-7; 1-60129-775-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910449716003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II