Busted! The Real Stories Behind America's Biggest Historical Lies

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Everything you learned in history class was wrong.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Think George Washington chopped down a cherry tree and couldn't tell a lie? </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nope.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Believe Ben Franklin discovered electricity with a kite? </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Think again.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sure that Washington was America's first president? </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Not exactly.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Welcome to the most entertaining history lesson you'll ever get. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Busted!</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> takes a wrecking ball to America's most cherished historical myths revealing the fascinating truth behind the stories we've been telling ourselves for centuries.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Author Donovan Douglas serves up the real stories with wit irreverence and just enough snark to keep you turning pages. From the Founding Fathers' fictional heroics to sanitized tales of American exceptionalism this book exposes how textbook writers turned messy complicated history into feel-good fairy tales.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>You'll discover:</strong></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Why Parson Weems invented the cherry tree story (spoiler: he was trying to sell books)</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>How Ben Franklin nearly got himself killed chasing lightning</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Which eight presidents served before Washington (and why nobody talks about them)</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The real stories behind America's most persistent historical lies</span></li></ul><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This isn't about hating America or tearing down heroes-it's about celebrating the complex flawed and genuinely fascinating people who built this country. Because the truth is always more interesting than the myth.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Perfect for history buffs skeptics and anyone who suspects their high school textbook might have been full of it.</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Finally someone brave enough to tell us what really happened-and make it fun to read.</em></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>History. Without the BS.</strong></p>