American Heritage Dictionary of American Quotations

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John and Abigail Adams, Casey Stengel, Davy Crockett, William Faulkner, Sojourner Truth, Geronimo, Ronald Reagan, A1 Capone, Erica Jong, Mark Twain, Yogi Berra—the words of these and other Americans from all walks of life reflect our national experience in peace and war, on land, sea, and in space, with heroism, humor, virtue, and villainy.
Organized in a browser-friendly, single-column format, the American Heritage Dictionary of American Quotations contains more than five thousand quotations on over five hundred topics, from Advertising to Massachusetts to Zeal, from the American Revolution to Marriage to the West. Approximately thirty percent of the entries are annotated, setting quotations in historical context, providing additional information about the writer or speaker, giving earlier and later examples of similar turns of phrase, and assessing questions of authenticity and originality—for instance: Mark Twain's famous "Put all your eggs in one basket— and watch that... Tovább

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John and Abigail Adams, Casey Stengel, Davy Crockett, William Faulkner, Sojourner Truth, Geronimo, Ronald Reagan, A1 Capone, Erica Jong, Mark Twain, Yogi Berra—the words of these and other Americans from all walks of life reflect our national experience in peace and war, on land, sea, and in space, with heroism, humor, virtue, and villainy.
Organized in a browser-friendly, single-column format, the American Heritage Dictionary of American Quotations contains more than five thousand quotations on over five hundred topics, from Advertising to Massachusetts to Zeal, from the American Revolution to Marriage to the West. Approximately thirty percent of the entries are annotated, setting quotations in historical context, providing additional information about the writer or speaker, giving earlier and later examples of similar turns of phrase, and assessing questions of authenticity and originality—for instance: Mark Twain's famous "Put all your eggs in one basket— and watch that basket!" was advice he himself received, and in those very words, from that canny Scotsman Andrew Carnegie!
The chronological arrangement of quotations within topics is another distinctive feature of the book, allowing the reader to trace the progress of the American Revolution, the Civil War, World Wars I and II, and other key historical sequences, while also demonstrating how Americans' views have evolved over time on such topics as Education,
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the Environment, Military Strategy, the Media, Politics, Religion, the Presidency, and Sports—among many others.
Quotations have been chosen not only for historical significance but with an eye to their future utility. Many convey insights that transcend the situations in which the words were first written or spoken—ranging from the brave John Paul Jones's "I have not yet begun to fight," through Thoreau's perception that "A man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one" and Lincoln's "A house divided against itself cannot stand," to Gloria Steinem's observation that "Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry" and Jim Henson's witty admonition (in the persona of Miss Piggy) "Never eat more than you can lift."
The American Heritage Dictionary of American Quotations is fully cross-referenced, with both author and keyword indexes, further enhancing the book's value as a reference tool and an essential addition to anyone's bookshelf.
Margaret Miner and Hugh Rawson
are also the editors of The New International Dictionary of Quotations, A Dictionary of Quotations from the Bible, and A Dictionary of Quotations from Shakespeare. On his own, Hugh Rawson is the author of Wicked Words, Devious Derivations, and Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms & Other Doubletalk. They live in Roxbury, Connecticut. Vissza