America's forgotten history
Subtitle: surprising stories and shocking facts about our past
By: [Reader's Digest]
Publisher: JG Press/World Publications Group, Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: East Bridgewater, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781464304620
Subjects: Miscellanea; Manners and customs; History; Social life and customs
Description: Strange fads, unlikely heroes, crazy laws, amazing events, embarrassing moments, surprising cover-ups.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Is it fact, or is it fiction?; title: All in the family; title: Food and drink; title: Pastimes, holidays, and games; title: Fads and fashions; title: Educating America and intellectual pursuits; title: Country life; title: City life; title: Westward, ho!; title: Business and industry; title: Going places; title: Communication and technology.; title: All in the family : rollicking stories of love and marriage, baby makes three, dealing with death, bewitching behavior, and lines of descent; title: Food and drink : oysters and lobsters all around, winning ways at the dinner table, the road to Wellville, and the corny birth of bourbon; title: Pastimes, holidays, and games : the "two million dollar dinner", Paris in the Rockies, the first Frogman, America's first roller coaster, and sports' other Babe; title: Fads and fashions : America gets rolling, Bingo, dancing fools, curious couture, the home perm, and the pants that won the West; title: Educating America and intellectual pursuits : snakes, skunks, and schoolmarms, the family tree of Dick and Jane, finding the perfect script, mid-century game throwers, and the birth of the book mobile; title: Country life : sodbusting on the range, the indispensable pig, George Washington's stubborn new breed, square dancing heads West, and snake oil salesmen; title: City life : the Venice of America, a skyscraper on the Plains, Five Points gets the Hollywood treatment, Chicago's other Underworld, and the Secret Subway of Alfred Beach; title: Westward, ho! : Moscow on Bodega Bay, the Rockhound Raconteur, the Legend of Deadwood Dick, skeletons in the closet, Dame Shirley finds new digs, and boom-town culture; title: Business and industry : the real McCoy. the 19th century computer, little blue bottles of relief, digging for backyard diamonds, and the Queen of Palm Beach; title: Going places : The over land, over sea auto race, the GI's best friend, Indy 500 test men, courageous Kate the Railroad Heroine, walking on water, and the high-flying Balloonatic; title: Communication and technology : the first news anchor, he snooped to conquer, Robert Ripley's quest for the curious, the skiing mailman, the mail pooch, and pint-sized pundits.