They Never Said it: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading AttributionsOxford University Press, 1989 - 159 páginas 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. Many of the misquotes are quite harmless. Some are inadvertent misquotes that have become popular (Shakespeare actually said, "The best part of valor is discretion"), others, the inventions of reporters embellishing a story (Franklin Roosevelt never opened a speech to a DAR group with the salutation, "My fellow immigrants"). But some of the quotes, such as Charles Darwin's supposed deathbed recantation of evolution, falsify the historical record with their blatant dishonesty. And other chillingly vicious ones, filled with virulent racial and religious prejudices, completely distort the views of the person supposedly quoted and spread distrust and hatred among the gullible. These include the forged remarks attributed to Benjamin Franklin that Jews should be excluded from America and the fabricated condemnation of Catholics attributed to Lincoln. An entertaining and thought-provoking book, They Never Said It covers a great deal of history and sets it right. Going beyond a mere catalog of popular misconceptions, Boller and George reveal how rightists and leftists, and atheists and evangelists all have at times twisted and even invented the words of eminent figures to promote their own ends. The ultimate debunking reference, it perfectly complements handbooks of quotations. |
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Adams John | 3 |
Allen Ethan | 4 |
Beria Lavrenti | 5 |
Bible | 7 |
Bogart Humphrey | 8 |
Boyer Charles | 9 |
Burke Edmund | 10 |
Butler Samuel | 11 |
Kautsky Karl | 58 |
Khrushchev Nikita | 59 |
Kissinger Henry | 61 |
Knights of Columbus | 62 |
Lawrence James | 63 |
Lincoln Abraham | 77 |
Long Huey | 94 |
Longworth Alice Roosevelt | 95 |
Carlyle Thomas | 12 |
Churchill Winston | 13 |
Cicero Marcus Tullius | 14 |
Colson Charles | 16 |
Communist Party Directive | 17 |
Congreve William | 18 |
Darwin Charles | 19 |
Devereux James P S | 20 |
Disraeli Benjamin | 21 |
Donaldson Sam | 23 |
Eisenhower Dwight D | 24 |
Emerson Ralph Waldo | 25 |
Francis I | 26 |
Frietchie Barbara | 28 |
Gaither Rowan | 29 |
Galileo | 30 |
Garfield James A | 31 |
Gaulle Charles de | 33 |
Gibbon Edward | 34 |
Gipp George | 35 |
Goering Hermann | 36 |
Goldwyn Sam | 37 |
Gordon Sol | 43 |
Hall Gus | 44 |
Hitler Adolf | 45 |
Holmes Oliver Wendell Jr | 46 |
Holmes Sherlock | 47 |
Hopkins Harry | 48 |
Howard Roy | 51 |
Ickes Harold | 52 |
Jackson Andrew | 53 |
Japanese Government Memo | 55 |
Jefferson Thomas | 56 |
Jones John Paul | 57 |
Maguire William A | 96 |
Manuilsky Dimitri | 97 |
Marx Groucho | 98 |
Napoleon I Napoleon Bonaparte | 99 |
Nash Ogden | 100 |
Nixon Richard M | 101 |
Otis James | 102 |
Paine Thomas | 103 |
Pershing John J | 104 |
Pinckney Charles Cotesworth | 105 |
Prescott William | 106 |
Rabinovich Rabbi Emanuel | 107 |
Reagan Ronald | 108 |
Reed John | 110 |
Reuther Walter | 111 |
Rogers Will | 112 |
Roosevelt Franklin D | 113 |
Rules for Revolution | 114 |
Scholz Jackson | 116 |
Shaw George Bernard | 117 |
Sheridan Philip | 118 |
Stalin Josef | 119 |
Sutton Willie | 121 |
Talmud | 122 |
Twain Mark | 123 |
Voltaire Jean François Arouet | 124 |
Washington George | 126 |
Wellington 1st Duke of | 130 |
Wilson Charles | 131 |
Wise Stephen | 132 |
Zhou Enlai | 133 |
Notes | 137 |
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