A treasury of foolishly forgotten Americans
Subtitle: pirates, skinflints, patriots, and other colorful characters stuck in the footnotes of history
By: Michael Farquhar.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780143113058
Subjects: United States -- History -- Anecdotes; United States -- Biography -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes.; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-256).
Table of contents: title: John Billington : Mayflower murderer; title: Mary Dyer : Quaker martyr; title: Anne Bonny : pirate of the Caribbean; title: Tom Quick : "The Indian Slayer"; title: Mary Jemison : "The White Woman of the Genesee"; title: William Dawes : the other midnight rider; title: James T. Callender : muckraker for the First Amendment; title: John Ledyard : the explorer who dreamed of walking the world; title: Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte : royal American; title: Stephen Pleasonton : the clerk who saved the Constitution (and the Declaration of Independence, too); title: Richard Mentor Johnson : the Veep who killed Tecumseh; title: Zilpha Elaw : an unlikely evangelist; title: Edwin Forrest : American idol; title: Rose O'Neal Greenhow : a spy of grand dame proportions; title: Clement Vallandigham : Copperhead; title: Mary Surratt : the mother of conspirators?; title: Tunis Campbell : pillar of Reconstruction; title: Sarah Winnemucca : "Paiute Princess"; title: Alexander "Boss" Shepherd : the man who made Washington "worthy of the nation"; title: Isaac C. Parker : "The Hanging Judge"; title: Hetty Green : "The Witch of Wall Street"; title: Oliver Curtis Perry : outlaw of the East; title: Anna Jarvis : the mother of Mother's Day; title: William J. Burns : "America's Sherlock Holmes"; title: Gaston B. Means : American scoundrel; title: Louise Arner Boyd : the socialite who conquered the Arctic wilderness; title: Beulah Louise Henry : "Lady Edison"; title: Guy Gabaldon : "The Pied Piper of Saipan"; title: Elizabeth Bentley : "Red Spy Queen"; title: Dick Fosbury : father of the flop.