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A revised, enlarged, and updated edition of this authoritative and entertaining reference booknamed the #2 essential home library reference book by the Wall Street Journal
Shapiro does original research, earning [this] volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartletts and Safire, New York Times Magazine (on the original edition)
The most accurate, thorough, and up-to-date quotation book ever A. Garner, Los Angeles Review of Books
Updated to include more than a thousand new quotations, this reader-friendly volume contains over twelve thousand famous quotations, arranged alphabetically by author and sourced from literature, history, popular culture, sports, digital culture, science, politics, law, the social sciences, and all other aspects of human activity.
Contemporaries added to this edition include Beyonc?, Sandra Cisneros, James Comey, Drake, Louise Gl?ck, LeBron James, Brett Kavanaugh, Lady Gaga, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Barack Obama, John Oliver, Nancy Pelosi, Vladimir Putin, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and David Foster Wallace. The volume also reflects path-breaking recent research resulting in the updating of quotations from the first edition with more accurate wording or attribution. It has also incorporated noncontemporary quotations that have become relevant to the present day. In addition, The New Yale Book of Quotations reveals the striking fact that women originated many familiar quotations, yet their roles have been forgotten and their verbal inventions have often been credited to prominent men instead.
This books quotations, annotations, extensive cross-references, and large keyword index will satisfy both the reader who seeks specific information and the curious browser who appreciates an amble through entertaining pages.
Author: Fred R. Shapiro
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 08/31/2021
Pages: 1168
Weight: 4.05lbs
Size: 9.60h x 7.20w x 2.10d
ISBN: 9780300205978
Language: English
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