Not so! : popular myths about America from Columbus to Clinton
(Book)

Columbus and the flat-earthers (pages3) -- Pre-Columbian America (pages7) -- The Puritans and religious freedom (pages13) -- Roger Williams's soul liberty (pages16) -- Sex and the American Puritan (pages19) -- The Second and the Fourth of July (pages25) -- George Washington's prayer at Valley Forge (pages29) -- George Washington's false teeth (pages33) -- The founding fathers and democracy (pages35) -- The Declaration, the Constitution, and natural rights (pages39) -- The religion of Thomas Paine (pages42) -- Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings (pages45) -- Thomas Jefferson on government (pages49) --- James Madison and congressional power (pages52) -- The War of 1812 and Vietnam (pages55) -- President Fillmore's bathtub (pages61) --

William T. Seward and the higher law (pages63) -- Uncle Tom as a Black hero (pages66) -- Sexual preferences : Abraham Lincoln and James Buchanan (pages72) -- Abraham Lincoln's defense of his wife (pages77) -- Abraham Lincoln's religion (pages79) -- Senator Logde and the League of Nations (pages86) -- President Harding's strange death (pages95) -- Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression (pages98) -- Jutice Holmes and President Roosevelt (pages102) -- Presidential ghostwriters (pages104) -- FDR and Soviet recognition (pages110) -- President Roosevelt and the attack on Pearl Harbor (pages117) -- Eleanor Roosevelt's love life (pages127) -- FDR and Yalta (pages135) -- Harry Truman and the vice presidency (pages144) -- Hiroshima and the American left (pages147) --

Losing China (pages154)

McCarthy and the Commies (pages161)

JFK and Vietnam (pages167)

The Kennedy assassination (pages173)

President Nixon's domestic policies (pages183)

Watergate (pages188)

The pledge of allegiance (pages195)

Presidential salutes (pages198)

Presidential campaigns (pages204)

Presidential wives (pages213)

Presidential scandals (pages222)

President-bashing (pages232)

Notes (pages247)

Index (pages271).