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Cargando... Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations (2017)por Garson O'Toole
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A fascinating study of widely-circulated, mis-attributed quotations. ( ) O'Toole is to be lauded for his research in debunking errant attributions of quotes, but at book length, it does become a bit tedious. If the quotes themselves were more interesting, this might not be the case. He also shows that while it is quite easy to prove that someone didn't say something (at least not originally), it is very difficult to pin down who actually did say it, or something quite like it first. The research here is quite convincing so far as it goes, however. I'll never look at a quote with as much trust again! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Extensive and brilliant investigations...a tour de force of detective work...Mr. O'Toole is a beacon of accuracy who should inspire all readers who prefer their facts real rather than phony." --Wall Street Journal Everywhere you look, you'll find viral quotable wisdom attributed to icons ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Mark Twain, from Cicero to Woody Allen. But more often than not, these attributions are false. Garson O'Toole--the Internet's foremost investigator into the dubious origins of our most repeated quotations, aphorisms, and everyday sayings--collects his efforts into a first-ever encyclopedia of corrective popular history. Containing an enormous amount of original research, this delightful compendium presents information previously unavailable to readers, writers, and scholars. It also serves as the first careful examination of what causes misquotations and how they spread across the globe. Using the massive expansion in online databases as well as old-fashioned gumshoe archival digging, O'Toole provides a fascinating study of our modern abilities to find and correct misinformation. As Carl Sagan did not say, "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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