| Author | Thornton, Willis.
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| Title | Fable, fact and history.
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| Published | New York, Greenberg [1957]
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| Description | 242 p. illus. 22 cm.
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| Contents | Tonypandy and the Boston Massacre -- The Columbus "log" -- The sour cherry tree -- The "donation of Constantine" -- The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence -- A deadly lie: the protocols of the Elders of Zion -- Pocahontas and John Smith -- The destroyers -- Of books and bathtubs -- The Kensington Stone -- The Connecticut blue laws -- Quotations made to measure -- Ghostly voices -- History, government-issue -- "Ringing words", out of tune -- The perfidious pen -- John Wilkes Booth redivivus -- The ingenious "Formosan" -- Skulls and giants -- The woman who wasn't pope -- The "awful disclosures" of Maria Monk -- The Casket letters -- The strange death of (name subject) -- The "sunrise conference" -- The king and the marshal -- Richard III and the murdered princes -- The "beautiful blunder" -- History, romance and dramatics. |
| Subjects | History -- Errors, inventions, etc.
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| LC Card Number | 57-5807 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: D 10 T51
mq162602: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 99387] |
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