Proverbial Democracy : Government of the People, by the People, for the People /
In the Gettysburg Address of 1863, Abraham Lincoln famously declared that 'government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth'. Since then the phrase has become the proverbial definition of American democracy. In this book, internationally renowned fol...
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New York :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,
2026.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Proverbial Democracy: "Government of, by, for the People"
- Lexicographical Accounts of the "People"-Triad
- Early Beginnings with John Adams and John Marshall
- Daniel Webster's Speech of January 26, 1830
- Major Importance of Theodore Parker's Speeches and Writings
- Abraham Lincoln as Catalyst and Phrase-Forger
- Frederick Douglass and His Repetitive Use of the Proverb
- Beyond Lincoln and Douglass: Last Third of the Nineteenth Century
- The First Half of the Twentieth Century and the "American Creed"
- The Rhetoric of Two World Leaders: Roosevelt and Churchill
- President Harry S. Truman's Proverbial Preoccupation
- The "People"-Proverb in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
- The Democratic Proverb in the Twenty-First Century
- Bibliography