{"product_id":"stupid-american-history-3-leland-gregory-9780740779916","title":"Stupid American History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Volume 3","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBestseller! Welcome to the land of the free, the home of the brave--and, apparently, the dumb, bizarre, and gullible . . .\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDid you know that . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 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 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 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--for which his colleagues officially censured him by a vote of 293-0 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Two US presidents were indentured servants--and one of them ran away and wound up with a $10 reward posted for his capture \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e From Columbus to George W. Bush, the bestselling coauthor of \u003ci\u003eAmerica's Dumbest Criminals\u003c\/i\u003e leads us through the many mythconceptions of our nation's history in this lively book, exposing lots of entertaining moments of idiocy and inanity along the time line.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leland Gregory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0740779915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780740779916\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrews McMeel Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.06h x 5.04w x 0.69d","brand":"Leland Gregory","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990549004543,"sku":"9780740779916","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0a289736-e136-40a6-880f-bb55db2092b2.jpg?v=1683305303","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stupid-american-history-3-leland-gregory-9780740779916","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}