Weird History 101

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 They bored you in school with dull history. Now you can enjoy reading about the interesting stuff. Your teachers built up heroes--such as the Founding Fathers--with their sanitized myths, but hid their dark side and flaws. This book reveals the secrets your history teacher was not allowed to tell you. Get ready for an unsanitized journey that proves truth is often stranger than fiction. Now you can get alternative points-of-view with firsthand accounts by people who were there.  If you'd like to know more about Custer, Geronimo, Nero, Attila the Hun, the Red Baron, Wyatt Earp, Houdini, the Titanic, pirates, propaganda, nuclear weapons, battles, massacres, war crimes, spies, terrorists, executions, assassinations, cannibalism, human sacrifice, drugs, and sex. And you don't mind taking an irreverent poke at politicians, presidents, the legal system, medicine, and weird religions. Then this just might be the book for you. If you can handle it. This book doesn't hold back. You might be shocked or even offended, but you're sure to be enlightened. No doubt you'll remember some of these bits of history for a long time. This is history as entertainment...and it's all true.  New updated edition with additional illustrations.  

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John Richard Stephens is the author/editor of 25 books, including Mark Twain's Hawaii, Wyatt Earp Speaks, Commanding the Storm, Life Along the Shore, and Life Under the Sea. John's books have been reprinted as selections of the Preferred Choice Book Club, the Quality Paperback Book Club, the Book of the Month Club, and the Civil War Trust. His work has been published as far away as India and Singapore and has been translated into Japanese and Finnish.  

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