Books By Kevin J. McKenna, G. L. Permiakov - Author

Wolfgang Mieder is Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont. Like his colleague and friend Kevin J. McKenna, he is especially interested in proverbs in politics, to wit his books &«No Struggle, No Progress»: Frederick Douglass and His Proverbial Rhetoric for Civil Rights (2001), &«Yes We Can»: Barack Obama's Proverbial Rhetoric (2009), and &«Making a Way Out of No Way»: Martin Luther King's Sermonic Proverbial Rhetoric (2010). His two books Proverbs Are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern World (2012) and Proverbs: A Handbook (2012) serve as surveys of the field of paremiology, that is, the study of proverbs.