A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans
Subtitle: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); Penguin Books
Published: March 25, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780143113058
Subjects: History; History - U.S.; History: American; United States - General; History / United States / General
Description: 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.