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Author Boller, Paul F.

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

Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  082 B638t 1989    ---  Lib Use Only
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  808.88 Bol    ---  Available
Description xxv, 159 pages ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-151) and index.
Summary Examines misquotations, incorrect attributions, and blatant fabrications.
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.
Subject Quotations.
Errors and blunders, Literary.
Literary curiosa.
Literary forgeries and mystifications.
Quotation.
Errors and blunders, Literary. (OCoLC)fst00915041
Literary curiosa. (OCoLC)fst00999919
Literary forgeries and mystifications. (OCoLC)fst00999922
Quotation. (OCoLC)fst01086126
Quotations. (OCoLC)fst01086132
Genre/Form Quotations. (OCoLC)fst01423792
Quotations.
Added Author George, John H.
Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) MsSM
ISBN 0195055411 (alk. paper)
9780195055412 (alk. paper)
0195064690 (pbk.)
9780195064698 (pbk.)

 
    
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