FREE: Stupid American History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions by Leland GregoryW

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Paperback, 266 pages. Includes illustrations and quotes.
Very interesting, entertaining book with a lot of interesting facts.

Description: "Satirist Leland Gregory teaches us a lesson in historical hilarity with Stupid American History.
From Columbus to George W. Bush (that's a lot of material, people), Leland leads us through American history's mythconceptions, exposing idiocy and inanity along the time line. He reeducates by informing us about myths. For example, Samuel Prescott actually was the guy to alert us that the British were coming and not that Paul Revere dude.
Move over Colbert and Stewart; satire has finally found its rightful place in American history."

Interesting facts:
"-In 1872, Congress passed a law requiring members of both houses to be docked a day's pay for every day's absence, except in the case of illness. More than 135 years later, the law has been enforced only twice.
-Karl Marx was once a correspondent for the New York Tribune.
-When television was first demonstrated at the 1939 New York World's Fair, a New York Time critic remarked that television would never compete with radio because 'people must sit and keep their eyes glued on the screen; the average American family hasn't the time for it.'
-In 1937, Gertrude Stein propsed that Adolf Hitler receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
-The first motto that appeared on U.S. coins was not 'in God We Trust'; it was 'Mind Your Business'"