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A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans
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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