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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.02
EAN num: 9780471267058
ISBN number: 0471267058
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 240
Printing Date: January 19, 2004
Publishing house: Wiley
Sale Popularity Level: 363638
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Praise for Unsolved Mysteries of American History
'The facts are presented clearly and concisely, and the answers have been thoroughly researched using the most up-to-date sources.'
-Newark Star Ledger
'Everything that would make a great detective story. It has intellectual twists and turns, alleyways and dead ends; it has politics, espionage, intrigue, murder, cowardice, greed, courage, battles, liars, and frauds.'
- New Strait Times
'Stimulating and pleasurable, fair and objective . . . recommended for both the history buff and the fan of true-life mysteries.'
-Kirkus Reviews
Praise for Unsolved Mysteries of History
'Draws intelligently and entertainingly on respected-and disputed-primary volumes. . . . Reading a chapter aloud to a group would almost guarantee a lively evening.'
-Baltimore Sun
'Unerring good sense and . . . well-paced prose.'
-Petersburg Monitor
'Solid speculation . . . full of clever advice.'
-Associated Press
'Aron's latest offering proves again that history can be fun and as strange, at least, as fiction.'
-Booklist
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Author Paul Aron examines 30 different mysteries of U.S. History. Was Aaron Burr a traitor? Did James Earl Ray kill Martin Luther King? Was Alger Hiss a spy? What caused the Gulf War Syndrome? Was O.J. Simpson guilty? The author attempts to provide the answers in concise yet informative chapters that run between six and ten pages. I liked that the author seemed motivated by an honest search for the truth rather than by some desire to make political statements. For that reason alone, his conclusions seem valid. Of course, while the answers to a couple of these mysteries seem obvious, others cannot be answered with certainty. For that reason the author gives what he admits is his best guess. Also, a couple of the author's conclusions seem superfluous. But, overall this book is informative, readable and intelligent.
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As a fiction book, it is quite interesting. But if he is presenting it as a factual and documentarial look into some of these mysteries, Aron should not be allowed to write books. He leaves out many of the extremely important and fairly well known scientific findings in many of these topics. He doesn't want to entertain those ideas, because then they would leave no mystery for him to "explore."
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This book contains 30 cases of unsolved mysteries. Each case is described in about 6 to 7 pages and is followed by a list of annotated references. Like the two other similarly titled and excellent books by this author, this one is clearly written in a very friendly and engaging style - it is quite hard to put down. In each case, the author succeeds in presenting the relevant information in a well-balanced and even-handed way by shedding light on arguments from all sides with the relative fairness that they each deserves. It is clear that some cases are more complicated and thus are more difficult to resolve than others. I was aware of the existence of some of these mysteries, but in many cases, I was not aware of any mystery at all. Thus, I learned something from each of these fascinating cases. This book would be interest to those who enjoyed this author's previous books of this nature, as well as to anyone who enjoys great mysteries.
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Since reading Paul Aron's "Unsolved Mysteries of American History" and "Unsolved Mysteries of History," I've been looking forward to the sequel--and here it is!
"More Unsolved Mysteries of American History" presents thirty mysteries in a series of brief essays (about seven pages apiece). The chapters are arranged chronologically, beginning with the question "Did St. Brendan Discover America?" and ending with "Was O.J. Simpson Guilty?"
Aron is very fair in his summary of each mystery. In clean and simple prose, he lays out the background, summarizes the competing theories and offers a reasoned solution, ending each essay with a brief but thorough annotated bibliography.
If you are looking for a book that offers sensational solutions to mysteries real or imagined, you'll probably be disappointed by the "Unsolved Mysteries" series. Aron fairly summarizes the "off the wall" theories about each of his mysteries, but he always comes to a conclusion that seems pretty plausible. No space aliens, Elvis sightings or grassy knolls here, but there's still plenty of mystery to be explored and enjoyed.
If you like this book, you'll want to read Aron's two previous books (one is another collection of American historical mysteries, the other examines the mysteries of world history). For those who enjoy somewhat more sensational solutions to their historical mysteries, try Hugh Miller's "Secrets of the Dead" and "More Secrets of the Dead," based on the BBC documentary series of the same name. Both of Miller's books can be found on Amazon's UK site.
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I like history because I like stories, and I think I would have liked the class in high school if the textbooks had been like this: fun stories, arguments and debates with just enough room in the evidence to provoke further thought. This is not dates and names history. This is history that's alive.
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