Fred R. Shapiro is associate librarian and lecturer in
legal research at the Yale Law School. He is a well-known authority
on quotations and the editor of The Oxford Dictionary of American
Legal Quotations.
"Meticulously researched. . . . To find out who said what and when
they did it, Shapiro spent six years poring over hundreds and
hundreds of databases, using advanced Internet searches as well as
using the more old-fashioned methods of going through microfilms,
dusty bookshelves and reading the 1,000 or so other quotation books
that are out there to find out the truth. . . . The result . . . is
a quotations book with footnotes that are as fascinating to read as
the quotes themselves."—Arthur Spiegelman, Washington Post Book
World
"[A] hotly awaited tome."—William Safire, New York Times
"The Yale Book of Quotations, handsomely printed, brings modern
voices into the company of standbys like Shakespeare, Samuel
Johnson and Mark Twain, who squeeze together and make room for B.B.
King, Fran Lebowitz, and Stanislaw Jerzy Lec."—William Grimes, New
York Times (The Gifts to Open Again and Again)
". . . good-humoured and richly sourced."—Godfrey Smith, The Sunday
Times
"A handsome volume of twelve thousand quotations, some more famous
than others—is Bartlett's and Oxford corrected, amplified, amended,
modernized and generally spiffed up. Not only is the The Yale Book
of Quotations a more profoundly researched work than anything else
to date, it is more comprehensive than any other
quotation-reference work—the first, in fact, to emphasize modern
and American sources and fully to represent popular culture,
children's literature, sports, computers, politics, law, and the
social sciences."—Katie Hafner, BookForum
Named the #2 reference book that is essential for a home
library by Donald Altschiller, Wall Street Journal
"This collection of 12,000 quotations is a real treat! The quotes
range over literature, history, popular culture, sports, computers,
science, politics, law, and the social sciences, and although
American quotations are emphasized, the book's scope is global. The
authors represented are as diverse as William Shakespeare, John
Lennon, Jack Dempsey, both Presidents Bush, J.K. Rowling, Rita Mae
Brown, Confucius, Warren Buffet, and Deng Xiaoping. . . .
The scope and detail of research here is impressive, and the . . .
typeface and layout make the work inviting. . . . Libraries will
want to purchase a copy for reference and for circulation, even if
they haven't been buying quotation books recently. Every library
will want one for circulation because browsing it is such
fun."—Library Journal
". . . meticulously researched . . ."—The Irish Times
". . . a worthy competitor to the Oxford and to Bartlett."—Nigel
Rees, "Quote...Unquote"
Selected as a 2007 "Outstanding" book by AAUP University Press
Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries
Named a Best Book of 2006 by amazon.com
Received Honorable Mention from the Professional and Scholarly
Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers
(PSP/AAP) in the category of single-volume reference, humanities
and social sciences
Winner of the Bronze ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in
Reference
A finalist in the category of Nonfiction for the 2007 Connecticut
Book Award, given by the Connecticut Center for the Book
"The Yale Book of Quotations, with Fred Shapiro's original
research, will shock many of us out of our state of error."—William
Safire, New York Times Magazine
"A splendid work of painstaking research and wide culture."—Joseph
Epstein, from the Foreword
"A splendid work of painstaking research and wide culture."—Joseph
Epstein, from the Foreword
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