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A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans is a compilation of biographies by Michael Farquhar. This was Farquhar's fifth book in a series of humorous historical outlooks.
Author | Michael Farquhar |
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Cover artist | cover design by Rosanne J. Serra / cover illustration by Peter de Seve |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | History/Humor |
Publisher | Penguin Group (USA) Inc. |
Publication date | 25 Mar 2008 |
Media type | Print ( Paperback) & Electronic |
Pages | 272 pp (paperback edition) |
ISBN | 978-0-14-311305-8 (paperback edition) |
OCLC | 230174177 |
Preceded by | The Century History as it Happened on the Front Page of the Capital's Newspaper |
Followed by | Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Trearchery, and Folly from Royal Britain |
Cast of characters edit
- John Billington: Mayflower Murderer
- Mary Dyer: Quaker Martyr
- Anne Bonny: Pirate of the Caribbean
- Tom Quick: “The Indian Slayer”
- Mary Jemison: “The White Woman of the Genesee”
- William Dawes: The Other Midnight Rider
- James T. Callender: Muckraker for the First Amendment
- John Ledyard: The Explorer Who Dreamed of Walking the World
- Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: Royal American
- Stephen Pleasonton: The Clerk Who Saved the Constitution (and the Declaration of Independence, Too)
- Richard Mentor Johnson: The Veep Who Killed Tecumseh
- Zilpha Elaw: An Unlikely Evangelist
- Edwin Forrest: American Idol
- Rose O’Neale Greenhow: A Spy of Grande Dame Proportion Rose O'Neal Greenhow
- Clement Vallandigham: Copperhead
- Mary Surratt: The Mother of Conspirators?
- Tunis Campbell: Pillar of Reconstruction
- Sarah Winnemucca: “Paiute Princess”
- Alexander “Boss” Shepherd: The Man Who Made Washington “Worthy of the Nation” Alexander Robey Shepherd
- Isaac C. Parker: “The Hanging Judge”
- Hetty Green: “The Witch of Wall Street”
- Oliver Curtis Perry: Outlaw of the East
- Anna Jarvis: The Mother of Mother’s Day
- William J. Burns: “America’s Sherlock Holmes”
- Gaston B. Means: American Scoundrel Gaston Means
- Louise Arner Boyd: The Socialite Who Conquered the Arctic Wilderness
- Beulah Louise Henry: “Lady Edison”
- Guy Gabaldon: “The Pied Piper of Saipan”
- Elizabeth Bentley: “Red Spy Queen”
- Dick Fosbury: Father of the Flop
Notes edit
References edit
- Farquhar, Michael (March 2008). A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History. New York: Penguin (Non-Classics). p. 272. ISBN 978-1-4362-0096-7. OCLC 231620675.
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