Hugh Rawson and Margaret Miner
Nearly 6,000 quotations
'This compilation is one of that special breed of reference books that is both suitable for browsing and satisfactory for ready-reference use.', Booklist
With nearly 6,000 quotations, this volume offers a stimulating picture of American culture and life. Up-to-date and thoroughly researched, the Dictionary covers more than five hundred topics, giving readers a nutshell history of what great (and not-so-great) Americans had to say about each one. This thoughtfully laid out compilation represents Americans ranging from the famous to the infamous, and from the distant as well as recent past, from George Abbott to Fran Lebowitz to Frank Zappa and numerous personalities, presidents, and analysts.
This is an essential browser-friendly reference not only for writers, editors, teachers and students, but also for anyone interested in the great people and ideas of American history.
Margaret Miner and Hugh Rawson are also the editors of The New International Dictionary of Quotations, A Dictionary of Quotations from the Bible, A Dictionary of Quotations from Shakespeare, The American Heritage Dictionary of American Quotations, and The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations from Shakespeare. Miner is also the author Resonant Gaps: Between Baudelaire and Wagner; Rawson is also the author of Wicked Words, Devious Derivations, Unwritten Laws: The Unofficial Rules of Life As Handed Down by Murphy and Other Sages, and Rawson’s Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk. They live in Roxbury, Connecticut.
Print edition ISBN: 9780195168235 / 0195168232
Publishing history: First published 2006
Copyright: © 2006, 2008 by Hugh Rawson and Margaret Miner
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