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Amazon.com
In a collection of 30 articles, Unsolved Mysteries of American History takes some of the most notable quandaries of the American past and tries to offer some solid answers, or at least alternate explanations. Paul Aron takes on the serious ("Why did Truman drop the bomb?") as well as the frivolous ("Did Babe Ruth call his shot?"). The book is written to entertain, but Aron provides a bibliography for further reading at the end of each essay, and steers readers to heavier tomes if they wish to dig deeper into the various subjects.

I started reading this book last night. It doesn't go into much detail, but only 'briefs' the reader on the different mysteries. No conclusions are drawn.

Most of the 'mysteries' I had heard of before, which was disappointing - I had hoped there'd be more oddball, weird stories in the collection. But there were a few stories that were new to me - for example, I didn't know that Meriweather Lewis had died under mysterious circumstances so soon after the Lewis & Clark expedition, or that Daniel Boone had been accused of being a traitor. But overall there was a very real feeling of been-there-done-that.

Maybe I watch too many documentaries on the History channel.

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