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A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans

By Michael Farquhar

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2008
ISBN
9781101202067, 2007026997
Language
english
Format
AZW
Filesize
410 kB (419544 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2025-04-20 11:45:38

Description

A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans A lively, compulsively browsable collection of neglected notables—from the bestselling author of A Treasury of Royal Scandals "History," wrote Thomas Carlyle, "is the essence of innumerable biographies." Yet countless fascinating characters are relegated to a historical limbo. In A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans, Michael Farquhar has scoured the annals and rescued thirty of the most intriguing, unusual, and yes, memorable Americans from obscurity. From the mother of Mother's Day to Paul Revere's rival rider, the Mayflower murderer to "America's Sherlock Holmes," these figures are more than historical runners-up—they're the spies, explorers, patriots, and martyrs without whom history as we know it would be very different indeed.

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