A treasury of foolishly forgotten Americans : pirates, skinflints, patriots, and other colorful characters stuck in the footnotes of history /
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,?...
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New York, N.Y. :
Penguin Books,
2008
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