Founding myths
Subtitle: stories that hide our patriotic past
By: Ray Raphael.
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Anecdotes.; United States -- History -- Errors, inventions, etc.
Genres: Anecdotes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Inventing a past -- Paul Revere's ride -- Molly Pitcher -- The man who made a revolution : Sam Adams -- The shot heard 'round the world : Lexington and Concord -- The winter at Valley Forge -- Jefferson's Declaration of Independence -- Founding Fathers : the greatest generation -- "Give me liberty or give me death" -- "Do not fire till you see the whites of their eyes" -- Patriotic slaves -- Brutal British -- The final battle at Yorktown -- March of the American people -- Storybook nation, or, Why we tell tall tales.