A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footno tes of History - Couverture souple

Farquhar, Michael

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ISBN 10 : 0143113054 ISBN 13 : 9780143113058

Editeur : Penguin Books, 2008

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael Farquhar is a writer and editor at the Washington Post specializing in history. He is the author of the bestsellers A Treasury of Great American Scandals and A Treasury of Royal Scandals. He appeared on the History Channel’s Russia, Land of the Tsars and will be featured on a forthcoming program about the French Revolution.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0143113054
• ISBN 13: 9780143113058
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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