Description"Was there really a valiant little Dutch boy, a protesting Lady Godiva, a fiddling Nero, or a prudish Queen Victoria? No, says Shenkman ....
No person, event, or thing is safe from Shenkman\'s corrections." --Booklist Founder of George Mason University\'s History News Network and bestselling author of Presidential Ambition and One Night Stands with American History, Rick Shenkman is an historian, a rebel, and a myth debunker par excellence.
Fascinating, edifying, and irreverent, here is the real World history you were never taught in school--for history buffs and confirmed trivia fanatics everywhere.
In Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of World History, he explodes some of the most honored and long-held misconceptions about kings and despots, wars and empires, religions, inventions, from the glory days of the Roman Empire to the dark days of World War Two.
Description"Was there really a valiant little Dutch boy, a protesting Lady Godiva, a fiddling Nero, or a prudish Queen Victoria? No, says Shenkman ....
No person, event, or thing is safe from Shenkman\'s corrections." --Booklist Founder of George Mason University\'s History News Network and bestselling author of Presidential Ambition and One Night Stands with American History, Rick Shenkman is an historian, a rebel, and a myth debunker par excellence
