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pirates, skinflints, patriots, and other colorful characters stuck in the footnotes of history

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An edition of A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans (2008)

A treasury of foolishly forgotten Americans

pirates, skinflints, patriots, and other colorful characters stuck in the footnotes of history

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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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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
257

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Anecdotes, Biography, History, Humor (Nonfiction), Nonfiction, United states, history, anecdotes, United states, biography

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A treasury of foolishly forgotten Americans: pirates, skinflints, patriots, and other colorful characters stuck in the footnotes of history
2008, Penguin Books
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A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History
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Table of Contents

John Billington : Mayflower murderer
Mary Dyer : Quaker martyr
Anne Bonny : pirate of the Caribbean
Tom Quick : "The Indian Slayer"
Mary Jemison : "The White Woman of the Genesee"
William Dawes : the other midnight rider
James T. Callender : muckraker for the First Amendment
John Ledyard : the explorer who dreamed of walking the world
Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte : royal American
Stephen Pleasonton : the clerk who saved the Constitution (and the Declaration of Independence, too)
Richard Mentor Johnson : the Veep who killed Tecumseh
Zilpha Elaw : an unlikely evangelist
Edwin Forrest : American idol
Rose O'Neal Greenhow : a spy of grand dame proportions
Clement Vallandigham : Copperhead
Mary Surratt : the mother of conspirators?
Tunis Campbell : pillar of Reconstruction
Sarah Winnemucca : "Paiute Princess"
Alexander "Boss" Shepherd : the man who made Washington "worthy of the nation"
Isaac C. Parker : "The Hanging Judge"
Hetty Green : "The Witch of Wall Street"
Oliver Curtis Perry : outlaw of the East
Anna Jarvis : the mother of Mother's Day
William J. Burns : "America's Sherlock Holmes"
Gaston B. Means : American scoundrel
Louise Arner Boyd : the socialite who conquered the Arctic wilderness
Beulah Louise Henry : "Lady Edison"
Guy Gabaldon : "The Pied Piper of Saipan"
Elizabeth Bentley : "Red Spy Queen"
Dick Fosbury : father of the flop.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-256).

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New York, N.Y
Genre
Anecdotes., Biography

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Dewey Decimal Class
973
Library of Congress
E179 .F29 2008

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Pagination
xi, 257 p. ;
Number of pages
257

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OL18495688M
ISBN 10
0143113054
ISBN 13
9780143113058
LCCN
2007026997
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1620374

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OL6033381W

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