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.