The Proverbial Harry S. Truman
Mieder, Wolfgang / Bryan, George B![The Proverbial Harry S. Truman](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/205/20560910/CHSBZCOP0320560910.jpg)
Harry S. Truman was not only a major political figure of the twentieth century, he was also a skilled communicator who was proud of his plain speaking. His letters, speeches, news conferences, memoirs, and other books are filled with elements of folk speech. Proverbs, proverbial expressions, and proverbial comparisons play an especially important rhetorical and communicative role, both in his personal relationships with family members and on t...