Stupid American History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions

ANew York TimesBestseller! Welcome to the land of the free, the home of the brave--and, apparently, the dumb, bizarre, and gullible . . . ANew York TimesBestseller! Welcome to the land of the free, the home of the brave--and, apparently, the dumb, bizarre, and gullible . . . Did you know that . . . John Tyler was on his knees playing marbles when he was informed that Benjamin Harrison had died and he was now president of the United StatesFor reasons still unknown, Texas congressman Thomas L...