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 enlarge | Author: Kenneth C. Davis
Publisher: Collins
Category: Book
List Price: $26.95
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 545
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.7 x 1
ISBN: 0061118184
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.2
EAN: 9780061118180
ASIN: 0061118184
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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good so far June 12, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I haven't had time to finish this book yet but from what I have read it is good. I recommend this book to anyone interested in learning about American history without falling asleep.
 Disapointed June 8, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Book was not as expected. Only a few stories, and they were mostly stories that I had heard many times in other books. Not an "untold stories" book. Disapointed.
A Bit Shakey on the Facts June 2, 2008
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Kenneth C. Davis starts out with an interesting and valuable perspective: American history is Anglo-centric and therefore, incomplete. This premis is true, American history books tend to begin with the Revolutionary war and they focus on Engllish and French participation. Many of America's greater 17th century heros are thereby neglected.
After a strong start, the books veracity begins to falter; questionable facts are carelessly laced with reality to make a good yarn.
By Section II, Davis moves on to the story of Anne Hutchinson. Unfortunately, Davis slights reality once again by neglecting the cadre of important figures (Dr. John Clarke and other Antinomians) who played a much larger role in establishing American freedoms of speech and separation of church and state.
Stuff They Never Taught Me In School May 31, 2008
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
Untold tales are interesting, but the real value to me was what these tales revealed about the characters in them. Kenneth Davis did a great job of putting their lives and actions in a meaningful context.
Living not far from the Hutchinson River Parkway, I was fascinated by his take on the tale of Anne Hutchinson. I'd heard it before, of course, and knew the basics. What Davis told me, though, was that she had advised some of her male disciples not to join a militia at war with local Indians, making her an organizer of some of America's earliest conscientious objectors. He also pointed out that it was after her trial that the Puritans in Boston banned Roman Catholics, Quakers, and other sects. Her younger sister, who became a Quaker, was whipped for blasphemy. Another of her followers who joined the Quakers, Mary Dyer, was arrested, stripped in public, and lashed. Later, the defiant Dyer returned to Boston, refused to leave and was executed.
Davis gives us equally illuminating tales of George Washington as a headstrong and ambitious young man who committed a war crime, what Paul Revere really did during the Revolution, and how Daniel Shay stood up for his rights only to be crushed like a bug--making American stronger in the process.
America's Hidden History reads as if it were told from the inside, full of first-person accounts and other source material that give us a clear, relatively objective view of what our founding fathers (and mothers) were like.
Dave Donelson, author of Heart of Diamonds: A Novel of Scandal, Love and Death in the Congo
very well written May 31, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
this was an easy read and I enjoyed it. I was hoping for a little more but it was very entertaining.
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