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A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History
Foolishly Forgotten Americans Cover
Author
Michael Farquhar
Cover artist
cover design by Rosanne J. Serra / cover illustration by Peter de Seve
Language
English
Genre
History/Humor
Publisher
Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Publication date
25 Mar 2008
Publication place
United States
Media type
Print ( Paperback) & Electronic
Pages
272 pp (paperback edition)
ISBN
978-0-14-311305-8 (paperback edition)
OCLC
230174177
Preceded by
The Century History as it Happened on the Front Page of the Capital's Newspaper
Followed by
Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Trearchery, and Folly from Royal Britain
A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans is a compilation of biographies by Michael Farquhar. This was Farquhar's fifth book in a series of humorous historical outlooks.
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