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Legends Lies and Cherished Myths of American History
Author | : Richard Shenkman |
Publsiher | : HarperPerennial |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Legends |
ISBN | : 0060972629 |
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A collection of background information on numerous legends from American history.
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.
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.
Myth America
Author | : Kevin M. Kruse,Julian E. Zelizer |
Publsiher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2023-01-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781541601406 |
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In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past. The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making constructive dialogue impossible and imperiling our democracy. In Myth America, Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer have assembled an all-star team of fellow historians to push back against this misinformation. The contributors debunk narratives that portray the New Deal and Great Society as failures, immigrants as hostile invaders, and feminists as anti-family warriors—among numerous other partisan lies. Based on a firm foundation of historical scholarship, their findings revitalize our understanding of American history. Replacing myths with research and reality, Myth America is essential reading amid today’s heated debates about our nation’s past. With Essays By Akhil Reed Amar • Kathleen Belew • Carol Anderson • Kevin Kruse • Erika Lee • Daniel Immerwahr • Elizabeth Hinton • Naomi Oreskes • Erik M. Conway • Ari Kelman • Geraldo Cadava • David A. Bell • Joshua Zeitz • Sarah Churchwell • Michael Kazin • Karen L. Cox • Eric Rauchway • Glenda Gilmore • Natalia Mehlman Petrzela • Lawrence B. Glickman • Julian E. Zelizer
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 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.