Download Tippecanoe and Tyler Too: Famous Slogans and Catchphrases in American History AudioBook Free
“By necessity, by proclivity, by delight,” Ralph Waldo Emerson said in 1876, “we all offer.” But often the phrases that land most conveniently from our collective mouth—like “flames when ready,” “speak softly and carry a big stay,” or “nice folks finish previous”—are those whose origins and true meanings we've ceased to consider. Rebuilding three-dimensionality to more than fifty of these American sayings, Tippecanoe and Tyler Too turns clichés back to history by informing the life reports of what that have served as our most effective challenge cries, rallying factors, laments, and inspirations.
In specific entries on slogans and catchphrases from the early seventeenth to the later twentieth century, Jan Truck Meter reveals that every one is a living, malleable entity that has profoundly shaped and is constantly on the influence our general public culture. From John Winthrop’s “We shall be as a city after a hill” and the 1840 VACATION CABIN Plan’s “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” to Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a goal” and Ronald Reagan’s “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” each of Truck Meter’s selections emerges as a memory device for a more substantial political or ethnical story. Taken alongside one another in Truck Meter’s able hands, these famous slogans and catchphrases give voice to your common history once we argue about where it will lead us.
“As Truck Meter argues, these are important ‘memory devices for a more substantial story.’ . . . The author has thoroughly explored all the catchphrases . . . . This reserve would make delightful in-flight reading or a good gift idea for a trivia buff. Suggested.”—Choice
