The half-dozen versions of the final report of the committee examining the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, aren't the only books that are making waves in the first weeks of the new year. A surprise entry — a look at the biggest legends in American history — is attracting unusual attention as well.
It bears the inviting title "Myth America," and it is a work of investigation in its own right: 20 essays by prominent American historians looking at what Mark Twain would have called a series of narratives that Americans "know for sure that just ain't so."
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