Americas Forgotten History Surprising Stories And Shocking Facts About Our Past Readers Digest Association by Reader's Digest Association instant download after payment.

384 pages : 27 cm, Strange fads, unlikely heroes, crazy laws, amazing events, embarrassing moments, surprising cover-ups, Is it fact, or is it fiction? -- All in the family -- Food and drink -- Pastimes, holidays, and games -- Fads and fashions -- Educating America and intellectual pursuits -- Country life -- City life -- Westward, ho! -- Business and industry -- Going places -- Communication and technology, Is it fact, or is it fiction? -- All in the family : rollicking stories of love and marriage, baby makes three, dealing with death, bewitching behavior, and lines of descent -- Food and drink : oysters and lobsters all around, winning ways at the dinner table, the road to Wellville, and the corny birth of bourbon -- Pastimes, holidays, and games : the \"two million dollar dinner\", Paris in the Rockies, the first Frogman, America's first roller coaster, and sports' other Babe -- Fads and fashions : America gets rolling, Bingo, dancing fools, curious couture, the home perm, and the pants that won the West -- Educating America and intellectual pursuits : snakes, skunks, and schoolmarms, the family tree of Dick and Jane, finding the perfect script, mid-century game throwers, and the birth of the book mobile -- Country life : sodbusting on the range, the indispensable pig, George Washington's stubborn new breed, square dancing heads West, and snake oil salesmen -- City life : the Venice of America, a skyscraper on the Plains, Five Points gets the Hollywood treatment, Chicago's other Underworld, and the Secret Subway of Alfred Beach -- Westward, ho! : Moscow on Bodega Bay, the Rockhound Raconteur, the Legend of Deadwood Dick, skeletons in the closet, Dame Shirley finds new digs, and boom-town culture -- Business and industry : the real McCoy. the 19th century computer, little blue bottles of relief, digging for backyard diamonds, and the Queen of Palm Beach -- Going places : The over land, over sea auto race, the GI's best friend, Indy 500 test men, courageous Kate…