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Richard Shenkman
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Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History |
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224 |
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1992-08-03 |
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0060972610 |
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Harper Paperbacks |
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0.37 pounds |
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5.36 x 8.18 x 0.52 inches |
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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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