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History and Current Events August 2017
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends & Lies: the Patriots by David FisherA companion to Bill O'Reilly's docudrama by the same name shares insights into how the American Revolution was a civil war, exploring such events as the child's murder that led to the Boston Massacre, the return of Ben Franklin from the Continental Army's first victory under Washington and the "Swamp Fox" guerilla campaign.
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| Marco Polo: The Journey That Changed the World by John ManThe 13th-century Venetian explorer Marco Polo reported details of his amazing journeys to a fellow prisoner in Genoa, and some have wondered about his narrative's veracity. In this history (originally titled Xanadu but renamed Marco Polo to accompany the 2014 Netflix series by that name), historian John Man relates how he retraced Marco's steps and adds materials from his research to depict the Italian in the summer court of Kublai Khan. Man's conclusion: Marco may have embroidered his accounts, as some believe, but he really did go to China. |
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony HorwitzA chronicle of the period in American history between Columbus's discovery of the New World and Jamestown's founding evaluates the dramatic voyages and first-contact experiences of numerous European adventurers in search of such elusive treasures as gold, the fountain of youth, and potential religious converts.
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