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One-Night Stands with American History (Revised and Updated Edition): Odd, Amusing, and Little-Known Incidents
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by Richard Shenkman and Kurt Reiger
Sales Rank: 101082
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List Price: $12.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 336 pages
Published by: Harper PaperbacksEdition: Revised Edition August 5, 2003
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0060538201
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0060538200
Book Dimensions:
7.8 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 10.4 ounces
Product Description
Respect yourself in the morning -- read One-Night Stands with American History!
This collection of little-known facts and anecdotes is American history with the boring parts left out. Richard Shenkman and Kurt Reiger have uncovered numerous stories about hoaxes, inventions, secrets, and rare incidents -- many involving the most famous and powerful people in America. - President U. S. Grant was arrested for speeding in his horse carriage.
- J. Edgar Hoover refused to allow people to walk on his shadow.
- France shipped Louisiana twenty-five prostitutes because women were in short supply in 1721.
- H. L. Hunt won his first oil well in a game of five-card stud.
Even historians find that One-Night Stands with American History features fascinating stories they never knew. Now updated with facts and anecdotes from the last twenty years, this volume is a treasure trove of remarkable stories that will startle, entertain, and inform you. And the best part is that they're all true!
About The Author
Richard Shenkman is the New York Times bestselling author of five history books, including Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of American History, "I Love Paul Revere, Whether He Rode or Not," and One-Night Stands with American History, which he co-authored. Educated at Vassar and Harvard, he is an Emmy Award-winning investigator reporter and the former managing editor of the news department at the CBS-TV affiliate in Seattle. Most recently he was the host, writer, and producer of a prime-time series on the Learning Channel and before that was a regular contributor to the NBC Sunday Today show.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: One-Night Stands With American History: Odd, Amusing, and Little-Known Incidents (Paperback)
Not exactly heavy reading, since one can finish it in one sitting with little effort, but this was one of the most fun books this little history buff has ever read. ONSWAH gives a few dozen anecdotes and unusual or ironic facts in each era of American history on up until the Carter administration. For anyone who is interested in America history and wants something more akin to brain candy, I highly recommend this book. It's one you will pull off the shelf again and again, just to make sure that little known and silly fact actually does exist and you didn't just imagine it. Just please don't start any bar fights over some of the odder bits of trivia.
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