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Also by Michael Farquhar:

Behind The Palace Doors, March 2011
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A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans, April 2008
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A TREASURY OF FOOLISHLY FORGOTTEN AMERICANS
By: Michael Farquhar

Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History

Penguin
April 2008
On Sale: March 25, 2008
272 pages
ISBN: 0143113054
EAN: 9780143113058
Paperback
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Historical | Non-Fiction Biography

A lively, compulsively browsable collection of neglected notables—from the bestselling author of A Treasury of Royal Scandals

“History,” wrote Thomas Carlyle, “is the essence of innumerable biographies.” Yet countless fascinating characters are relegated to a historical limbo. 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.

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All Things Considered - April 5, 2008