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A lively, compulsively browsable collection of neglected

notables-from the bestselling author of A Treasury of Royal

Scandals

"History," wrote Thomas Carlyle, "is the essence of innumerable

biographies." Yet countless fascinating characters are relegated to

a historical limbo. In A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten

Americans, Michael Farquhar has scoured the annals and rescued

thirty of the most intriguing, unusual, and yes, memorable

Americans from obscurity. From the mother of Mother's Day to Paul

Revere's rival rider, the Mayflower murderer to "America's

Sherlock Holmes," these figures are more than historical

runners-up-they're the spies, explorers, patriots, and martyrs

without whom history as we know it would be very different

indeed.

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Michael Farquhar, a former writer and editor at

The Washington Post, is the bestselling author of the

Penguin Treasury series.

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A lively, compulsively browsable collection of neglected notables-from the bestselling author of A Treasury of Royal Scandals

"History," wrote Thomas Carlyle, "is the essence of innumerable biographies." Yet countless fascinating characters are relegated to a historical limbo. In A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans , Michael Farquhar has scoured the annals and rescued thirty of the most intriguing, unusual, and yes, memorable Americans from obscurity. From the mother of Mother's Day to Paul Revere's rival rider, the Mayflower murderer to "America's Sherlock Holmes," these figures are more than historical runners-up-they're the spies, explorers, patriots, and martyrs without whom history as we know it would be very different indeed.