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Legends Lies and Cherished Myths of World History
Author | : Richard Shenkman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1993-10-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 006017062X |
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Legends Lies Cherished Myths of World History
Author | : Richard Shenkman |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2011-07-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780062098863 |
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“Was there really a valiant little Dutch boy, a protesting Lady Godiva, a fiddling Nero, or a prudish Queen Victoria? No, says Shenkman ….No person, event, or thing is safe from Shenkman’s corrections.” —Booklist Founder of George Mason University’s History News Network and bestselling author of Presidential Ambition and One Night Stands with American History, Rick Shenkman is an historian, a rebel, and a myth debunker par excellence. In Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of World History, he explodes some of the most honored and long-held misconceptions about kings and despots, wars and empires, religions, inventions, from the glory days of the Roman Empire to the dark days of World War Two. Fascinating, edifying, and irreverent, here is the real world history you were never taught in school—for history buffs and confirmed trivia fanatics everywhere!
Legends Lies and Cherished Myths of the World History
Author | : Richard Shenkman |
Publsiher | : Random House Value Pub |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1995-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0517138638 |
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The bestselling author of "I Love Paul Revere, Whether He Rode or Not" now exposes the most popular myths and legends of other countries. If you think Cleopatra was beautiful, Robin Hood was a nice guy, or Napoleon was short, this book will make you think again. 12 line drawings.
Legends and Lies of World History
Author | : Richard Shenkman |
Publsiher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1994-05-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0060925698 |
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Bestselling author of Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of American History now takes on the world! Skewering the nonsense we were all taught about the world's revolutions, religions, heroes, and inventors, Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of World History is a whirlwind tour of history from the Trojan War to World War II. Eclectic and fun, Richard Shenkman's well-documented revelations prove that muck of history is indeed "but a fable agreed upon." Queen Victoria may have usually worn black, but she loved to drink and party. During World War II the English were conned into believing it was Winston Churchill who broadcast the speech about this being their finest hour. But it wasn't Churchill, it was Norman Shelley, a radio actor hired as a stand-in. Marie Antoinette did not say, "Let them eat cake," Churchill didn't coin the phrase "the Iron Curtain," and Caesar never said, "Et tu, Brute?" Scandal in the English monarchy is nothing new: Fifteen kings fathered children out of wedlock. One queen helped depose her husband so her lover could take his place. Three English kings were gay.
Legends Lies Cherished Myths of American History
Author | : Richard Shenkman |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2013-03-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780062098870 |
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The truth and nothing but the truth—Richard Shenkman sheds light on America's most believed legends. The story of Columbus discovering the world was round was invented by Washington Irving. The pilgrims never lived in log cabins. In Concord, Massachusetts, a third of all babies born in the twenty years before the Revolution were conceived out of wedlock. Washington may have never told a lie, but he loved to drink and dance, and he fell in love with his best friend's wife. Independence wasn't declared on July 4th. There's no evidence that anyone died in a frontier shootout at high noon. After World War II, the U.S. government concluded that Japan would have surrendered within months, even if we had not bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
History as Mystery
Author | : Michael Parenti |
Publsiher | : City Lights Publishers |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016-08-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780872867185 |
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In a lively challenge to mainstream history, Michael Parenti does battle with a number of mass-marketed historical myths. He shows how history's victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege. And he demonstrates how historians are influenced by the professional and class environment in which they work. Pursuing themes ranging from antiquity to modern times, from the Inquisition and Joan of Arc to the anti-labor bias of present-day history books, History as Mystery demonstrates how past and present can inform each other and how history can be a truly exciting and engaging subject. "Michael Parenti, always provocative and eloquent, gives us a lively as well as valuable critique of orthodoxy posing as ‘history.’"—Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States "Deserves to become an instant classic." —Bertell Ollman, author of Dialectical Investigations Those who keep secret the past, and lie about it, condemn us to repeat it. Michael Parenti unveils the history of falsified history, from the early Christian church to the present: a fascinating, darkly revelatory tale." —Daniel Ellsberg, author of The Pentagon Papers "Solid if surely controversial stuff."—Kirkus Michael Parenti, PhD Yale, is an internationally known author and lecturer. He is one of the nation's leadiing progressive political analysts. He is the author of over 275 published articles and twenty books, including Against Empire, Dirty Truths, and Blackshirts and Reds. His writings are published in popular periodicals, scholarly journals, and his op-ed pieces have been in leading newspapers such as the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. His informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad.
I Love Paul Revere Whether He Rode Or Not
Author | : Richard Shenkman |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2011-06-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780062105974 |
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Provocative and amusingly heretical, "I Love Paul Revere, Whether He Rode or Not" (a quote attributed to Warren Harding) offers eye-opening revelations debunking long-held American legends.
History
Author | : Robert Blackey |
Publsiher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2011-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781434412294 |
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This book includes 14 essays written by the author that provide practical advice for teachers and students to assist both in achieveing the best results for teaching, learning, and writing about history. Part 1 offers suggestions for enlivening classroom presentations. Part 2 addresses the problems of teaching students to write, and part 2 focuses on history tests and exams, including ways to construct and respond to essay questions.