Title

The words we live by: the creeds, mottoes, and pledges that have shaped America.

Description

Brian Burrell's splendid collection shows that many of the phrases we once lived by can still have resonance today. A comprehensive, fascinating treasure trove of American common sense and whimsy, The Words We Live By presents a sentimental rediscovery of a lost era in American history.Burrell's work was inspired by his father, an obsessive collector of words and a chronic nostalgia buff who traveled widely with his family, introducing them to the landmarks, monuments, and other symbols of America's past. Throughout his life, he clipped or wrote down memorable phrases, quotes, mottoes, and quips, both the silly and the profound, the playful and the maudlin. Burrell has lovingly compiled his father's collection of scrapbooks, complementing them with extraordinary research into the origins of America's civic ethics, to produce a truly memorable and inspirational work of historical reference. More than just a compendium of classic American wit and wisdom, The Words We Live By brings this material to life with poignantly told stories, forgotten anecdotes, and deeply considered meditations on the meaning of the words that have shaped the American nation.

Identifier

2500179

684830019

Creator

Burrell, Brian

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1997

Program air date: September 7, 1997

Publisher

Free Press

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on verso of front endpaper: What is the Golden Rule. In Federal Triangle--inscriptions grossly oversized Post Office and Penn Stations "not likely to happen p 218. GSA 8 Billion--150 courthouse revolutions. Cricket p 100. Mafia oaths p 74. Russo v. Central School District p 64 (one nation under God). Red Shelton Flag Day p 62. Rotary/Lions/Kiwanis--The Shriners The Masons. Geo. WASH-Rules of Civility. Thomas Jefferson-Dialogues. Benjamin Franklin--13 virtues. Colin Powell--13 precepts. Notes on front fly sheet: 3 professions: medicine, law, clergy. Thomas Percival p 104 Code. Hippocratic oath--not legally binding. The Lasagna Oath p 108. What is a creed, motto, oath, code. Architectural inscriptions. Golden Rule, Sermon on the Mount--Matthew/Luke/Confusion. What was the square Deal. Where did the Apostles Creed come from p. 36. " " "Medicine " " ". Anathema p 37. What was Edward R. Murrow's "This I believe" p 45. Who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance- p 65. Mason's p 88--William Morgan--disappeared. In God we Trust. Machiavelli--p 123 Elbert Hubbard Message to Garcia, Dale Carnegie, Horatio Alger, Charlie Schwab. Colin Powell, Rosa Parks, Cal Pepken--p 138 Admire people who continue to represent bedrock principles. p 125 Horace Greely, Jimmy Durante, P.T. Barnum, Vince Lombardi. Underlinings/Notes: Underlinings: Background on inspiration for book; meanings of various, mottos, crreds, and their backgrounds. Lamb underlines the names of great thinks and the impact of the words. Notes: "give direction," "not P.O's motto," "Tocque," "two Parts," "Confucius and the 'Golden Rule'," "not binding," "Jimmy Hoffa," "Belief, Robert Ingersoll," "Ingersoll Creed," "Tom Paine creed," "Definition of a creed," "Apostle's creed," "Nicene Creed," "anathema," "Great Schism," "Edward R. Murrow," "British v. American," "French v. American" "American Citizen's Handbook 1941," "Wilkie," "Boy Scout Handbook," "50 Million readers and listeners," "Vietnam," "St. Aug.," "regent's oath dark," "Founding Fathers," "Red Skelton," "Susan Russo," "Francis Bellamy," "1953 under God," "1954 Flag Day," "Jehovah's Witness," "Oath of young men of Athens," "omerta," "Mafia oath," "Tom Sawyer's gang," "CUNY," "Masons 1826," "William Morgan disappeared," "Temperance," "Saratoga 1808," "Shriners," "1875 WCTU," "Anti-Saloon league," "women's movement," "short pledge/long pledge," "1933 Repeal of Prohib.," "200 yrs. old," "not cricket," "3 professions," "barbers," "abortion, suicide," "not written by Hippo.," "4th century," "Black Friday 1929," "William Henry Channing," "Robert Ingersoll," "Bill W. 1938 A.A., 12 steps," "Boy Scout oath," " A Message to Garcia," "Greeley, Durante, Barnum, Lombardi," "Horatio Alger," "Charlie Schwab," "died bankrupt," "Fatherly advice from Hamlet," "David Riesman," "The Lonely Crowd," "Ben Franklin 13 principles," "Cal Ripkin, Colin Powell, Rosa Parks," "Horatio Alger," 119 books," "1977 Arthur Bloch," "Murphy's Law," "Occam's Razor," "Parkinson," "1st Sentence," "New York's Empire Diner," "motto," "MacArthur," "Patrick Henry," "Franklin and Time is money," "Emerson," "IBM," "Orwell 1984," "dollar," "The Seal," "Annuit coeptis," "Novus ordo seclorum, 1935," "drunks, FDR Masons," "Bob Dole," "the Great Seal on the dollar," "Henry Wallace letter," "not a national motto 1957," "Reverend M.R. Wattkinson 1861," "1864 In God we trust," "1912 New York Post Office," "Supreme Court, Archives," "Statue of Liberty," "40 years president," "McKim, Burnham, Eliot," "Charles Eliot Post Office," "Harvard Classics," "Latin v. Englis," "grossly overused," "Lincoln Memorial," "Warren Harding relented," "Supreme Court," "Cass Gilbert," "GSA 150 courthouses," "Vietnam Mem.," "Moynihan," "PATCO," "WCTV 1874," "abortions," "Harding," "Dennis Lee Curtis 1992," "Charles Schwab."

Subject

"National characteristics, American--Quotations, maxims, etc."

"Conduct of life--Quotations, maxims, etc."

"Social values--United States--Quotations, maxims, etc."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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