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Title American heritage dictionary of American quotations [electronic resource] / selected and annotated by Margaret Miner and Hugh Rawson.

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New York, N.Y. : Penguin Reference, 1997 (Boston, Mass. : Credo Reference, 2012.)

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Credo Reference E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (695 entries) : digital files.
Contents	A-Z.
Access	Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
Summary	From Henry David Thoreau to Mark Twain via Benjamin Franklin, Rawson's Dictionary of American Quotations covers the whole gamut of American life, culture and politics. By turns humourous and serious, its range includes Ralph Waldo Emerson and Joseph Kesserling on 'Sanity', Albert Einstein on 'Mystery' and Woodrow Wilson on 'Poverty'.
System Details	Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Note	Description based on title page of print version.
Subject	Quotations, American -- Dictionaries.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Miner, Margaret.
	Rawson, Hugh.
	Credo Reference (Firm)
Added Title	Dictionary of American quotations.
Other Form:	Print version: 0670100021 9780670100026 (DLC) 96008046 xv, 638 p.
ISBN	9781849720465 (online)
	9780670100026 (print)
	0670100021 (print)