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Founding Myths Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past

by Ray Raphael

ISBN13: 9781565849211
ISBN10: 1565849213
Condition: Standard
DustJacket: Standard

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- The legend of Paul Revere's Ride was invented by a poet in 1861, eighty-six years after the fact?
- Thomas Jefferson was not seen as the architect of American equality until Abraham Lincoln assigned him that role four score and seven years later?
- Molly Pitcher, the revolutionary heroine whose picture adorns current textbooks, is a complete fabrication?

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ISBN:: 9781565849211
Binding:: Hardcover
Publication date:: 09/01/2004
Publisher:: NEW PRESS
Pages:: 368
Height:: 8.25 in.
Width:: 5.5 in.
Number of Units:: 1
UPC Code:: 2801565849213
Author:: Ray Raphael
Subject:: History
Subject:: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-
Subject:: United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Subject:: United States History.
Subject:: United states

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