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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boller, Paul F.

Contributor:

George, John H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quotations.

Errors and blunders, Literary.

Literary curiosa.

Literary forgeries and mystifications.

Quotation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-19-987916-8

0-19-802222-0

1-280-52503-7

1-60129-775-0

OCLC:

475955642