- Taschenbuch: 224 Seiten
- Verlag: William Morrow Paperbacks; Auflage: Reprint (19. Juni 1992)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0060972610
- ISBN-13: 978-0060972615
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,8 x 13,6 x 1,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.3 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (6 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 935.044 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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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 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 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 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.
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Sheds new light on old, time-honored myths and misconceptions of American history, setting the record straight on such historical subjects as presidents, holidays, heroes, and sex in history.
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS'S achieve were so great that people have been willing to believe almost anything about him, no matter how fantastic. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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This was an interesting book, enjoyable and an easy read. It is a good jumping off point for futher in-depth investigation. I wouldn't take everything here at face value (and the author doesn't really expect you to). It has encouraged me to read opposing view points on subjects like the Alamo and the Rough Riders. It has helped remind me that there are sometimes several different points of view to one story. I would recommend it but remember it's just one more side of history.
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I agree with the reader from Atlanta. This book really IS superficial in a lot of ways, but I am not sure it was the author's intent to make this an in depth academic study in the first place. The contents certainly deliver on the title's promise. I used this book as a reader in a Japanese university English class precisely because it wasn't so daunting or detailed. The students loved it. One of them transferred elsewhere and went on to get an advanced degree in American history! I think Mr. Shenkman can take some credit for that.
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The premise is good, but the book simply moves from topic to topic too quickly. The author seems to delight in pointing out these untrue myths and legends, and he is able to document these claims via footnotes and bibliography, but there is no in depth discussion of these myths. Instead the book is full of disjointed sentences which form very short chapters and then your on to the next topic. For a more scholarly approach to the same topic, try "Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong" by James Loewen
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interesting; well researched
This book makes you initially hate the author for violating some sacred cows of history (such as, Davy Crockett surrenderedat the Alamo and did not die fighting off the hordes of... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. April 1998 veröffentlicht
Say it ain't so, Joe
Good, succinct destruction of historical myths, as we know them. His debunking of Caesar and Cleopatra or his revelations on Catherine The Great are wonderfully related with wit... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 10. April 1997 veröffentlicht
The real history behind traditional history
"Most Americans know very little history. Unfortunately,
most of the history they know is wrong. Lesen Sie weiter...
most of the history they know is wrong. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 8. Dezember 1996 veröffentlicht
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