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Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Restoring three-dimensionality to more than fifty of these American sayings, Tippecanoe and Tyler Too turns cliches back into history by telling the life stories of the words that have served as our most powerful battle cries, rallying points, laments, and inspirations." "In individual entries on slogans and catchphrases from the early seventeenth to the late twentieth century, Jan R. Van Meter reveals that each one is a living, malleable entity...