A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History
by Michael Farquhar
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Author: Michael FarquharEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-25
ISBN: 0143113054
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Reviews of A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History
Book Review: Title should be: Deservedly Forgotten Americans
Summary: 1 Stars
This book is more like a collection of rejected stories, pulled from the garbage can, than a collection to be purposely printed.
Hardly enough information is available about any character to even start to get interesting. Example: There was a lady pirate once who was finally caught and jailed. Her companion was hanged. Nothing else is known about her; she just disappeared into history. Now, that's really dull!
Nearly all the stories are like this. This book is a waste of paper.
Summary of A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History
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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