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They never said it : a book of fake quotes, misquotes, and misleading attributions
- Title
- They never said it : a book of fake quotes, misquotes, and misleading attributions / Paul F. Boller, Jr., John George.
- Author
- Boller, Paul F.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- George, John H.
- Description
- xxv, 159 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Examines misquotations, incorrect attributions, and blatant fabrications.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Quotation.
- quotations (texts)
- Quotations
- Quotations.
- Citations.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-151) and index.
- 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 Illyitch -- 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. -- Petain, 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 -- Sevigne, 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 Francois Arouet] -- Washington, George -- Wellington, 1st Duke of -- Wilson, Charles -- Wilson, Woodrow -- Wise, Stephen -- Woollcott, Alexander -- Zhou En-lai -- Zinoviev, Grigori.
- ISBN
- 0195055411
- 9780195055412
- 0195064690
- 9780195064698
- LCCN
- 88022115
- OCLC
- ocm18292227
- 18292227
- SCSB-1723381
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library