Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History

SHENKMAN, Richard

ISBN 10: 0688065805 / ISBN 13: 9780688065805

Edité par William Morrow, New York, 1988

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8vo, 1/2 blue cloth, d.w. New York: William Morrow, (1988). Very good.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History
• Éditeur: William Morrow, New York
• Date de parution: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0688065805
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780688065805
• Reliure: hardcover
• Édition: First.
• État de l'article: near fine
• État de la jaquette: very good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

Book by Shenkman Richard

Présentation de l'éditeur

The truth and nothing but the truth—Richard Shenkman sheds light on America's most believed legends.

The story of Columbus discovering the world was round was invented by Washington Irving.

The pilgrims never lived in log cabins.

In Concord, Massachusetts, a third of all babies born in the twenty years before the Revolution were conceived out of wedlock.

Washington may have never told a lie, but he loved to drink and dance, and he fell in love with his best friend's wife.

Independence wasn't declared on July 4th.

There's no evidence that anyone died in a frontier shootout at high noon.

After World War II, the U.S. government concluded that Japan would have surrendered within months, even if we had not bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.