Stupid American history : tales of stupidity, strangeness, and mythconceptions

ISBN: 9781449428921
ISBN: 1449428924
Physical Description: print 266 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Edition: 2013 edition.
Publisher: Kansas City : Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, [2013]

Summary: "America is home of the brave and, apparently, the stupid and gullible. In Stupid American History, best-selling author Leland Gregory leads us through American history's mythconceptions, exposing idiocy and inanity along the timeline, including: - In 1999, the U.S. Postal Service printed a Grand Canyon commemorative stamp labeled "Grand Canyon, Colorado." The Grand Canyon is in Arizona. - The spies in the Watergate Hotel were arrested while their lookout was busy watching Attack of the Puppet People instead of watching out for police. - The forty-second Congress of 1873 not only gave itself a salary raise of 50 percent, but then made it retroactive for two years."