An eye-opening book on the truths of American History, Not So is a well written collection of events and what really happened. Did the voyage of Columbus take place to challenge the prevailing belief that the earth is flat? Was the fourth of July when congress really voted for independence from Great Britain? What was George Washington’s teeth really made of? All these answers and a lot more lie within the cover of Not So – Popular Myths About America from Columbus to Clinton.To relieve your troubled mind, people already knew the world was round, congress voted for independence on July 2, and George Washington’s teeth were made from ivory, and that’s not even the half of it. The whole book is an attack on the falsehood created from rumor and myth; those are just three examples. Much of what is said in history is wrong, and we have been taught this false history since elementary school.We start out the book with a chapter on Columbus and the flat earthers. Many people were taught, and still are taught that Columbus’s voyage eastward was challenging the popular belief that the world was flat. The truth of the matter is that almost every educated person in Columbus’s time knew that the world was round. Where Columbus ran into trouble was the people’s different belief on the size of the globe. The only resource that the people of this era had on the subject was the bible, and even that never said the actual size. Well, as we all know, Columbus thought that the world was a small sphere, and he was wrong.The next chapter is written on the tranquility of the Native Americans before Columbus arrived. It states that the Indians were not at one with nature, but were actually destroying it and then moving one. They were savage people, and had a lust for war. The book moves along in chronological order moving to the Puritans, then to American Revolutionary times and so on to the rather inter...
