e-Book Stupid American History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions (Stupid History) download

by Leland Gregory

ISBN: 0740779915
ISBN13: 978-0740779916
Language: English
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (April 21, 2009)
Pages: 272
Category: Americas
Subategory: History

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I absolutely love history. With that said I jumped on the opportunity to read Stupid American History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions by Leland Gregory.

Only 8 left in stock (more on the way). I absolutely love history. I absolutely loved reading this and finished it in about 2 days. This book is full of little facts that make you think about what really happened in our past and what is happening now that will be looked at in another 100 years as stupid, strange or as myths.

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Stupid American History didn't live up to what I was expecting based on the title. Structurally, the book was highly disappointing

Stupid American History didn't live up to what I was expecting based on the title. Structurally, the book was highly disappointing. The illustration choices distracted from the book, as well, and were repeatedly the same four characters from the front cover. Quality of content was sporadic as well.

America is the home of the brave and, apparently, the stupid and gullible. Satirist Leland Gregory teaches us a lesson in historical hilarity with Stupid American History.From Columbus to George W. Bush (that's a lot of material, people), Leland leads us through American history's mythconceptions, exposing idiocy and inanity along the time line. He reeducates by informing us about myths. For example, Samuel Prescott actually was the guy to alert us that the British were coming and not that Paul Revere dude. Move over Colbert and Stewart; satire has finally found its rightful place in American history.Excerpt from the book:"John Tyler was on his knees playing marbles when he was informed that Benjamin Harrison had died and he was now president of the United States. At that time marbles was a very popular game for both children and grown-ups."For reasons still unknown, Texas congressman Thomas Lindsay Blanton, a Presbyterian Sunday school teacher and prohibitionist, inserted dirty words into the Congressional Record in 1921. His colleagues overwhelmingly censured him on October 24, 1921, by a vote of 293-0."

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Dakora

In the opening to my Kindle version, Mr. Gregory criticizes the founder's use of the phrase "to form a more perfect union" claiming that "If something is perfect it's, well, perfect--it can't be more perfect." Before making such an arrogant claim, the author, whom I suspect thinks himself to be an historian, might have done well to check the first edition of Noah Webster's American Dictionary (1828) for the definition of the word "perfect." Had he done so, he would have learned that the meaning at that time did not imply 100% completeness as it does today, but rather allowed for improvement. Therefore, whatever we had before, while it may have been "fully informed" (i.e. "perfect"), it still allowed room for improvement, thus we were able to establish a "more perfect union." This in itself is NOT Stupid American History, rather what this reveals is a stupid historian. By the way, if anyone is interested, you can find the definition for "perfect" as well as other words whose meaning has changed over the years at: [...].

Dusar

I certainly can't understand how some people claim this book bashes Bush when it really doesn't mention him, but mainly Democrats (such as Andrew Jackson who is mentioned a lot) with a few Rebuplicans in history thrown in. Anyhow, I thought this was a fun and informative book. I read it in one day because I couldn't put it down. I liked the fact that it wasn't in any perticular order, the randomness made it much more fun to read. Much of the info presented, I didn't know. Most of it was interesting with only a few here and there that I didn't care to learn about. Some of it made me laugh out loud. Needless to say, I will probably send some of this trivia to my friends who would get a kick out of it. I do recommend this book. I am a history buff and I still learned from it. No, he doesn't cite any sources and that would help if you were doing any research or wanted to verify any facts, but for the most part, it is a great book. This was the first book of his that I read and I will be reading more.

Phain

So here is a confession about me. I am a wee bit of a dork. I absolutely love history. With that said I jumped on the opportunity to read Stupid American History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions by Leland Gregory. I absolutely loved reading this and finished it in about 2 days. This book is full of little facts that make you think about what really happened in our past and what is happening now that will be looked at in another 100 years as stupid, strange or as myths.
My only negative comment about this book is not really a negative comment at all. Some of the facts seemed a little too out there. I would love to see how Leland Gregory researched these facts. Where did he find his information?
If you are one of those people who always liked the Kennedy-Lincoln coincidences then you will love this book. At minimum it is worth a read for the laughs you will get at some of our countries past-leaders

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Anardred

I was really enjoying this easy read of random trivia (which is just my sort of thing - miscellaneous bits of useless knowledge), until I came across one particular entry.

"It may sound like a tragically ironic myth that on the night the Titanic sank they were showing the film The Poseidon Adventure, about a group of people trying to stay alive after their ocean liner capsized. But it's true. Two films were scheduled during the voyage and both had nautical themes: The 1911 movie The Lighthouse Keeper starring Mary Pickford played on the evenings of April 12 and 13, and The Poseidon Adventure, directed by D.W. Griffith, played on April 14th. The movie began at 11 p.m. and people were so enthralled by the action, they didn't notice their ship jolting when it hit the fatal iceberg forty minutes later."

I thought that was ludicrous.

I did some quick research of my own. In 5 minutes I learned:
1. The was a very prolific director named D.W. Griffith, but IMDB does not say he made any movie called The Poseidon Adventure.
2. Netflix carries no film named The Poseidon Adventure made prior to 1972.
3. Wikipedia says the novel The Poseidon Adventure on which the movies are based wasn't published until 1969.
4. Snopes has a page verifying it as a true story, here: [...] first link at this page, you see what appears to be an IMDB page confirming The Poseidon Adventure was made my D.W. Griffith. [...]
6. If you click the second link on the original Snopes page, you find a disclaimer that this is in fact a fake, put there to keep people on their toes. [...]
So in less time than it's taken you to read this post, I learned that the book was wrong. This indicates the author, the publisher, and the editor did not take even the bare minimum amount of time to double check their claims. What else in the book is wrong? How can I believe anything else published here?

Despite this glaring error that discredits the author's work, I did enjoy the book. It was a fun and easy read and some of it might even have been true.

Pad

Leland Gregory's Stupid American History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness and Mythconceptions makes a decent coffee table or bathroom book, but it is not serious history. Not that anyone should think it is either.

The sheer amount of small anecdotes is impressive, but superficial of course. The majority of the trivia is about American presidents, not American history in general.

It is sometimes witty, but usually rather dull. The humor often misses the mark.

It was free, so that is always a positive in my book, but overall I think I will have to give it 2/5 stars.

Trev from trevsliteraryreview and trevshistoryreview

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