Not so! : popular myths about America from Columbus to Clinton / Paul F. Boller, Jr
- Bib ID:
- 2244552
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Boller, Paul F
- Description:
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 1995
- 278 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0195091868
- Full contents:
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- 1. Columbus and the Flat-Earthers
- 2. Pre-Columbian America
- 3. The Puritans and Religious Freedom
- 4. Roger Williams's Soul Liberty
- 5. Sex and the American Puritan
- 6. The Second and the Fourth of July
- 7. George Washington's Prayer at Valley Forge
- 8. George Washington's False Teeth
- 9. The Founding Fathers and Democracy
- 10. The Declaration, the Constitution, and Natural Rights
- 11. The Religion of Thomas Paine
- 12. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
- 13. Thomas Jefferson on Government
- 14. James Madison and Congressional Power
- 15. The War of 1812 and Vietnam
- 16. President Fillmore's Bathtub
- 17. William T. Seward and the Higher Law
- 18. Uncle Tom as a Black Hero
- 19. Sexual Preferences: Abraham Lincoln and James Buchanan
- 20. Abraham Lincoln's Defense of His Wife
- 21. Abraham Lincoln's Religion
- 22. Senator Lodge and the League of Nations
- 23. President Harding's Strange Death
- 24. Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression.
- 25. Justice Holmes and President Roosevelt
- 26. Presidential Ghostwriters
- 27. FDR and Soviet Recognition
- 28. President Roosevelt and the Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 29. Eleanor Roosevelt's Love Life
- 30. FDR and Yalta
- 31. Harry Truman and the Vice Presidency
- 32. Hiroshima and the American Left
- 33. Losing China
- 34. McCarthy and the Commies
- 35. JFK and Vietnam
- 36. The Kennedy Assassination
- 37. President Nixon's Domestic Policies
- 38. Watergate
- 39. The Pledge of Allegiance
- 40. Presidential Salutes
- 41. Presidential Campaigns
- 42. Presidential Wives
- 43. Presidential Scandals
- 44. President-Bashing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- United States -- History -- Errors, inventions, etc
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2038 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1968
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