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They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions

Full title: They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions
ISBN: 9780195055412
ISBN 10: 0195055411
Authors: John George Boller Jr., Paul F.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition: 1ST
Num. pages: 192
Binding: Hardcover
Language: en
Published on: 1989

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Synopsis

Examines Misquotations, Incorrect Attributions, And Blatant Fabrications. Adams, John -- Addison, Joseph -- Allen, Ethan -- Armstrong, Neil -- Beria, Lavrenti -- Bible -- Bogart, Humphrey -- Boyer, Charles -- Brezhnev, Leonid -- Burke, Edmund -- Butler, Samuel -- Cagney, James -- Cambronne, Pierre Jacques Etienne -- Carlyle, Thomas -- Cervantes, Miguel De -- Churchill, Winston -- Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Cohen, Israel -- Colson, Charles -- Communist Party Directive -- Congreve, William -- Coolidge, Calvin Darwin, Charles -- Devereux, James P.s. -- Dimitrov, Georgi -- Disraeli, Benjamin -- Donaldson, Sam -- Durocher, Leo -- Edison, Thomas Alva -- Eisenhower, Dwight D. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Fields, W. C. -- Francis I -- Franklin, Benjamin -- Frietchie, Barbara -- Gaither, Rowan -- Galileo -- Garbo, Greta -- Garfield, James A. -- Gaulle, Charles De -- Gibbon, Edward -- Gipp, George -- Goering, Hermann -- Goldwater, Barry M. -- Goldwyn, Sam -- Gordon, Sol -- Greeley, Horace Hall, Gus -- Hecht, Ben -- Hitler, Adolf -- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. -- Holmes, Sherlock -- Hoover, Herbert -- Hopkins, Harry -- Howard, Roy -- Humanist Manifesto Ii -- Ickes, Harold -- Ingersoll, Robert G. -- Jackson, Andrew -- Japanese Government Memo -- Jefferson, Thomas -- Jones, John Paul -- Kant, Immanuel -- Kautsky, Karl -- Khrushchev, Nikita -- Kissinger, Henry -- Knights Of Columbus Lawrence, James -- Lenin, Vladimir Illyitch -- Lincoln, Abraham -- Long, Huey -- Longworth, Alice Roosevelt -- Louis Xiv -- Maguire, William A. -- Mankiewicz, Herman -- Manuilsky, Dimitri -- Marie Antoinette -- Marx, Groucho -- Mather, Cotton -- Napoleon I [napoleon Bonaparte] -- Nash, Ogden -- Newton, Sir Isaac -- Nixon, Richard M. -- O'hair, Madalyn Murray -- Otis, James Paine, Thomas -- Pepys, Samuel -- Pershing, John J. -- Petain, Marshal Henri Philippe -- Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth -- Prescott, William, The Protocols Of The Learned Elders Of Zion -- Rabinovich, Rabbi Emanuel -- Reagan, Ronald -- Reed, John -- Reuther, Walter -- Rogers, Will -- Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- Rules For Revolution Scholz, Jackson -- Sevigne, Marquise De -- Shaw, George Bernard -- Sheridan, Philip -- Sherman, William Tecumseh -- Stalin, Josef -- Sutton, Willie -- Taft, Robert A. -- Talmud -- Tocqueville, Alexis De -- Twain, Mark -- Voltaire [jean Francois Arouet] -- Washington, George -- Wellington, 1st Duke Of -- Wilson, Charles -- Wilson, Woodrow -- Wise, Stephen -- Woollcott, Alexander -- Zhou En-lai -- Zinoviev, Grigori. Paul F. Boller, Jr., John George. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.