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Title: Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of World History
Author: Richard Shenkman
Narrator: Gary Owens
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-15-17
Publisher: Phoenix Books
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
Best-selling author and founder of George Mason University's History News Network Rick Shenkman is a historian, a rebel, and a myth debunker par excellence. In Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of World History, Shenkman shatters some of the most honored and long-held misconceptions about famous people and events - from the glory days of the Roman Empire to the dark days of World War II...from kings and despots to battles and empires, from religions to inventions. Fascinating, edifying, and irreverent, here is the real world history you were never taught in school - for history buffs and confirmed trivia fanatics everywhere!
Members Reviews:
A Look Beyond the Obvious
Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of American History
Richard Shenkman
Jeopardy buff? Any trivia or history aficionado will enjoy this book tremendously and find it a great addition to her/his library. Shenkman touts little known facts on a wide range of topics in the relatively short, but certainly intense history of the "Land of the Free." Most importantly, for a fact-filled myth buster like this one, he carefully cites his sources.
Where questions remain about people, places, events and celebrations, Shenkman provides the reader with ample and balanced background information to forge onward with new and unique theories. His perspective is not critical or in your face, and he gives fresh insights on long and widely held incorrect concepts. The entire work is like a written version of Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story.
I didn't wholly agree with all the positions set forth in the work, but deeply appreciated Shenkman's efforts to encourage thought and his subtle nudge to delve deeper into the subject matter. As an educator, I loved many of the fascinating tidbits mentioned throughout the book. I draw from the book regularly in my classes in hopes that I will help my students identify with characters or events in our country's illustrious history.
Five Stars
Great humor, and short facts on history
Five Stars
Great book. Lots of information. Thanks
Five Stars
very cool book
This book opens like any other history book of our time
Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of American History serves as a window into the truth about the history of our nation. This book shatters the backbone of the beliefs we, as a nation, were brought up on. It puts to rest the misconceptions and false information we have all thought to be true. This book, by Richard Shenkman, proves to be one of the most informative books in recent history. Shenkman aims to educate and strives to obliterate the legends and lies we have all been brought up on. He introduces his audience to a new world of truth and understanding about what really went into creating this country and who the people who created this country really were.
This book opens like any other history book of our time, with the story of Christopher Columbus. However, this story is aiming to disprove all of the seemingly wonderful things this man found and established, starting with the belief that Columbus, in 1492, discovered that the Earth was in fact round. As Shenkman points out, this fact had been well established by the 15th Century; in fact, Shenkman notes, it was Aristotle who discovered the concept centuries earlier.
