Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of American History Paperback - 2013
by Richard Shenkman
In seventeen brief, well-documented chapters, this bestselling book sheds light on America's most believed legends. The record is set straight on subjects such as our founding fathers, presidents, education, holidays, and sex in American history.
From the rear cover
The truth and nothing but the truth-- Richard Shenkman sheds light on America's most believed legends:
The story of Columbus discovered that the world was round was invented by Washington Irving.
The pilgrims never lived in log cabins.
In Concord, Massachusetts, a third of all babies born in the twenty years before the Revolution were conceived out of wedlock.
Washington may have never told a lie, but he loved to drink and dance, and he fell in love with his best friend's wife.
Independence wasn't declared on July 4 (and the Liberty Bell was so little regarded that Philadelphia tried to sell it for scrap metal but nobody wanted it).
After World War II, the U.S. Government concluded that Japan would have surrendered within months, even if we had not bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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- Title Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of American History
- Author Richard Shenkman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2013-03-26
- ISBN 9780060972615 / 0060972610
- Weight 0.37 lbs (0.17 kg)
- Dimensions 8.18 x 5.36 x 0.52 in (20.78 x 13.61 x 1.32 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Topical: Civil War
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 89045163
- Dewey Decimal Code 902.07
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