[PDF.37br] They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions

They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions

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 | #1486481 in Books |  1990-06-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.38 x5.38l,.54 | File type: PDF | 192 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Good book, could have been better|By Frank Langben|It's a good book, exploring our tendency to mis-attribute quotes, sometimes innocently, sometimes intentionally advancing our favorite belief or quirk by attributing it to Twain or Lincoln. Once attributed, the misattribution speads like wildfire, especially since we now have the internet. Sometimes Boller exactingly finds the| ||"...highly amusing romp through the history of spurious quote-mongering....Boller and George not only perform a valuable scholarly service, they also give us a first-rate detective story."--George E. Hopkins, International Social Science ||"[A] high

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.
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