On This Date Discovering America One Day At A Time Hardcover Carl M Cannon by Carl M: Cannon 9781455542307, 145554230X instant download after payment.

Forget what you were taught in seventh grade - Carl Cannon's ON THIS DATE takes readers down American history's back alleys and side streets.
From the arrival of the Mayflower through the 2016 election, ON THIS DATE takes readers through five hundred years of American history, choosing a vignette for each date on the calendar year. Drawing from Carl Cannon's popular RealClearPolitics Morning Note, ON THIS DATE is formatted around fascinating-and sometimes unknown-stories behind specific dates in U.S. history: How presidents reacted privately to the loss of American astronauts, what Dwight Eisenhower really thought about playing football against the great Jim Thorpe, the legal grounds for the first American divorce, and who wrote Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer-and who profited from it. In the spirit of Kenneth Davis'sDon't Know Much About Historyand the History Channel's "10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America," ON THIS DATE offers a colorful alternative history that debunks some popular myths and celebrates America's forgotten heroes.