Forgotten Americans, Footnote Figures Who Changed American History

"Renowned biographer Randall and wife Nancy Nahra, an award-winning poet, here offer fascinating sketches of Americans who have unjustly been relegated to the footnotes of history… Most have faded from popular consciousness despite having been influential or even notorious in their own time. After vividly sketching the bloody tale of Tom Quick, who fought a personal duel with the Lenape Indians for 40 years, the authors tell the stories of Native Americans who resisted the conquest of the continent by whites, like the Lenape Teedyuscung, and those who conformed to white culture, like old-time Cleveland baseball star Louis Sockalexis, an Abenaki Indian after whom the Cleveland Indians were named. Besides native Americans, the authors depict persons who, often courageously, resisted the exclusions of white make society. Well narrated, these thumbnail portraits vividly show the forgotten side of important struggles and issues.

- Kirkus Reviews

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