
Stupid American History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780740779916
Publication Date: 04/21/2009
Edition Description: Original
A New York Times Bestseller! Welcome to the land of the free, the home of the brave—and, apparently, the dumb, bizarre, and gullible . . .
A New York Times Bestseller! Welcome to the land of the free, the home of the brave—and, apparently, the dumb, bizarre, and gullible . . .
Did you know that . . .
A New York Times Bestseller! 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 States
- For reasons still unknown, Texas congressman Thomas Lindsay Blanton, a Presbyterian Sunday school teacher and prohibitionist, inserted dirty words into the Congressional Record in 1921—for which his colleagues officially censured him by a vote of 293-0
- Two US presidents were indentured servants—and one of them ran away and wound up with a $10 reward posted for his capture
Choose options
New Releases
The Anthony Bourdain Reader: New, Classic, and Rediscovered Writing
Anthony Bourdain
Hardcover
Sale price$40.00
Bonds of Hercules (Deluxe Limited Edition) (B&N Exclusive Edition)
Jasmine Mas
BN Exclusive
Sale price$32.00
















