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Title: Intersting premise falls flat
Review: I received this as a gift many years ago. After recently reading several U.S. histories and several founding-father biographies I pulled this out for some lite reading. While an interesting read, my copy is going in the trash.Most of my thoughts have been expressed by other reviewers. True to the title the book is mostly a fast-paced debunking of one "myth" after another, many of which are generally accepted as myth or are inconsequential to american history. The work is footnoted (loosely at best), but many references end up being someone else's opinion rather than a primary source. Since Mr. Shenkman is going out of his way to debunk American history it's hard not to take a lot of his debunking with a grain of salt.
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