Founding Myths

Founding Myths

By
Ray Raphael
Ray Raphael
2014 • 434 pages

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490 books

Social History

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Paradox of Plenty
The Age of Edison
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Voices from Chernobyl
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

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791 books

History

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The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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790 books

Sociology Anthropology

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Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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16 books

American Revolution

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Chains
Forge
Sophia's War: A Tale of the Revolution
My Brother Sam Is Dead
Johnny Tremain
Woods runner
A People's History of the American Revolution

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146 books

American Studies

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Fat Shame
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America
The Second Founding
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy

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22 books

American Civil Religion

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Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine
Bait and Switch
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy
The Cult of the Constitution
Myth America
Lies across America
We Need New Stories: The Myths that Subvert Freedom