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Books : America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation
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: America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation
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by: Kenneth C. Davis

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.2
EAN: 9780061118180
ISBN: 0061118184
Label: Collins
Manufacturer: Collins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: May 01, 2008
Publisher: Collins
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Sales Rank: 9699
Studio: Collins



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Kenneth C. Davis, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Don't Know Much About History, presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation's destiny and character. Davis's dramatic narratives set the record straight, busting myths and bringing to light little-known but fascinating facts from a time when the nation's fate hung in the balance.



Spanning a period from the Spanish arrival in America to George Washington's inauguration in 1789, America's Hidden History details these episodes, among others:

  • The story of the first real Pilgrims in America, who were wine-making French Huguenots, not dour English Separatists
  • The coming-of-age story of Queen Isabella, who suggested that Columbus pack the moving mess hall of pigs that may have spread disease to many Native Americans
  • The long, bloody relationship between the Pilgrims and Indians that runs counter to the idyllic scene of the Thanksgiving feast
  • The little-known story of George Washington as a headstrong young soldier who committed a war crime, signed a confession, and started a war!


Full of color, intrigue, and human interest, America's Hidden History is an iconoclastic look at America's past, connecting some of the dots between history and today's headlines, proving why Davis is truly America's Teacher.





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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Honesty and Rigorous Research
I found this book well researched and very readable and a good primer and springboard for anyone interested in American history.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - good book
I got this book for my birthday and was not sure what to make of it before i read it. After i was do i thought it was well written and i enjoyed it very much


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Cute, Overblown, Light, With Erroneous Sweeping Statements
This is the first book I've read by author Kenneth Davis and it will be my last. He has chosen six stories, but meanders far off the point in telling them and runs fast and loose with his facts and sweeping statements. This is a cute book for 8th graders, but does not add to the literature of colonial days or the beginning of our country.

The first story is really about the Spanish Catholics exterminating the French Protestant presence in South Carolina to the last man, woman and child. OK, that happened and illustrates one of the worst features of Catholic dogma in that heresy must be ruthlessly stamped out, not by converting people, but by killing them, but his account is a popularized one that never scratches the historical surface.

The second tells the story of the Puritan versus Indian confrontation in New England, sympathetically to the Indians. After the first two ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - America Hidden History
America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation

This is a very interesting book and sure opens up a lot of what really went on in our early history. Not all was as well as we were told in school, or what the history books we had told us.




 

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