A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans Paperback - 2008
by Farquhar, Michael
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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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"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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- Title A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans
- Author Farquhar, Michael
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition Fi
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 257
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin, N Y.
- Date 2008
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # UFARTRE01fp
- ISBN 9780143113058 / 0143113054
- Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.03 x 5.47 x 0.6 in (20.40 x 13.89 x 1.52 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects United States, United States - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007026997
- Dewey Decimal Code 973
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