Founding Myths Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past 1st Edition by Ray Raphael ISBN 1565849213 9781565849211

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ISBN 10: 1565849213 

ISBN 13: 9781565849211

Author: Ray Raphael

Examines thirteen well-known American stories, including those about Paul Revere’s legendary ride and Thomas Jefferson’s pivotal role in the establishment of American equality, contending that many of their surrounding myths are not supported by recent scholarship.

Table of contents:

1. Inventing a past
2. Paul Revere’s ride
3. Molly Pitcher
4. The man who made a revolution : Sam Adams
5. The shot heard ’round the world : Lexington and Concord
6. The winter at Valley Forge
7. Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence
8. Founding Fathers : the greatest generation
9. “Give me liberty or give me death”
10. “Do not fire till you see the whites of their eyes”
11. Patriotic slaves
12. Brutal British
13. The final battle at Yorktown
14. March of the American people
15. Storybook nation, or, Why we tell tall tales.

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