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Summary
Forget the marble gods on your schoolroom wall. Founding Fathers: 20 Myths That Refuse to Die takes a hammer to the myths around Washington, Jefferson and company, from wooden teeth and hemp Constitutions to phantom signatures and midnight rides. In twenty sharp, fast-moving chapters, Miguel Thornton walks through the stories we were taught, the evidence historians actually have, and the uncomfortable truths usually left out—slavery, propaganda, political spin, and plenty of plain old misunderstanding. Drawing on letters, ledgers, court records and modern scholarship, he shows how America’s founders were neither saints nor monsters, but driven, conflicted human beings. If you want to argue less with memes and more with facts, start here.Book information
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Biography and Memoir, Politics and Government
