Thursday, June 05, 2008

A Note to Self: Unsolved Mysteries of American History

Book Count: 46

Unsolved Mysteries of American History By: Paul Aron
Non-fiction 354 pages 1997

This book is on various mysteries in American history. Things like the causes of the Salem witch trials, did Thomas Jefferson have a slave mistress, who killed JFK, Malcolm X and the Lindbergh baby and other things that people question the official answer too. For the shortness of each topic it did provide useful information and many other sources to read; however, a number of topics now have newer information that wasn’t out when this book was written. For example, we now know that the descendants of Sally Hemings are related to the descendants of Jefferson, so if she had to either be his mistress or that of a close relative and most likely was his.

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