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As he did in his bestselling They Never Said It, Boller provides us with a cornucopia of historical correction, debunking myths that range from the trivial - for instance, George Washington did not have false teeth made of wood (they were made of ivory) - to the pernicious (FDR did not know in advance that the Japanese planned to bomb Pearl Harbor). Boller doesn't simply debunk each myth, but instead provides us with much fascinating history surrounding each case, so that the reader is treated to intriguing discussions of many singular episodes in American history, including the Kennedy…
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2 editions- Other · English · 1996Oxford University Press, USA · 288 pages · 9780195109726
- Other · English · 1995Oxford University Press · 278 pages · 9780195091861
Errors, inventionsHistoryUnited states, historyMythologyUnited states, history, sources