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''A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans'' is a compilation of biographies by Michael Farquhar. This was Farquhar's fifth book in a series of humorous historical outlooks. ==Cast of characters== :John Billington: Mayflower Murderer :Mary Dyer: Quaker Martyr :Anne Bonny: Pirate of the Caribbean :(Tom Quick ): “The Indian Slayer” :Mary Jemison: “The White Woman of the Genesee” :William Dawes: The Other Midnight Rider :James T. Callender: Muckraker for the First Amendment :John Ledyard: The Explorer Who Dreamed of Walking the World :Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: Royal American :Stephen Pleasonton: The Clerk Who Saved the Constitution (and the Declaration of Independence, Too) :Richard Mentor Johnson: The Veep Who Killed Tecumseh :Zilpha Elaw: An Unlikely Evangelist :Edwin Forrest: American Idol :Rose O’Neale Greenhow: A Spy of Grande Dame Proportion Rose O'Neal Greenhow :Clement Vallandigham: Copperhead :Mary Surratt: The Mother of Consirators? :Tunis Campbell: Pillar of Reconstruction :Sarah Winnemucca: “Piaute Princess” :Alexander “Boss” Shepherd: The Man Who Made Washington “Worthy of the Nation” Alexander Robey Shepherd :Isaac C. Parker: “The Hanging Judge” :Hetty Green: “The Witch of Wall Street” :Oliver Curtis Perry: Outlaw of the East :Anna Jarvis: The Mother of Mother’s Day :William J. Burns: “America’s Sherlock Holmes” :Gaston B. Means: American Scoundrel Gaston Means :Louise Arner Boyd: The Socialite Who Conquered the Arctic Wilderness :Beulah Louise Henry: “Lady Edison” :Guy Gabaldon: “The Pied Piper of Saipan” :Elizabeth Bentley: “Red Spy Queen” :Dick Fosbury: Father of the Flop 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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