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Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of World History
Legends Lies and Cherished Myths of World History
Author: Richard Shenkman, Arte Joanson
The truth and nothing but the truth--Richard Shenkman sheds light on America's most believed legends:
  • The story of Columbus discovered that 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 Revo...  more »
  • 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 4 (and the Liberty Bell was so little regarded that Philadelphia tried to sell it for scrap metal but nobody wanted it).
  • 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.
ISBN-13: 9781558008786
ISBN-10: 1558008780
Publication Date: 8/1993
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Publisher: Audio Literature
Book Type: Audio Cassette
Other Versions: Hardcover
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