A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History
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Book Description A lively, compulsively browsable collection of neglected notablesfrom the bestselling author of A Treasury of Royal Scandals History, wrote Thomas Carlyle, is the essence of innumerable biographies. Yet...
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Book Description A lively, compulsively browsable collection of neglected notablesfrom 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 Mothers Day to Paul Reveres rival rider, the Mayflower murderer to Americas Sherlock Holmes, these figures are more than historical runners-uptheyre the spies, explorers, patriots, and martyrs without whom history as we know it would be very different indeed. About the Author Michael Farquhar, a former writer and editor at The Washington Post, is the bestselling author of the Penguin Treasury series.
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