Armchair Reader: The Book of Myths & Misconceptions

by Edward P. Moser (Contributor)

Don t believe everything you hear, at least not until checking it out in The Book of Myths & Misconceptions. This book, from the popular Armchair Reader series, shines new light on hundreds of topics, setting the record straight on urban legends, old wives tales, misattributed quotes all the so-called facts we picked up from any number of less than reliable sources.

The Book of Myths & Misconceptions presents the origins and the truths about history, pop culture, health and medicine, science, and the paranormal, to name just a few subjects. Here is a sampling of some common myths addressed in the Armchair Reader editors:
Two bloody blockbuster movies, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Fargo, were based on real-life events.
People use only ten percent of their brains.
A penny dropped from the Empire State Building can kill a pedestrian.
Ronald Reagan, not Humphrey Bogart, was the first choice to play the role of Rick Blaine in the iconic movie Casablanca.
If you consume Pop Rocks and soda together, your stomach will explode.
Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen, and his body is buried beneath the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland.
Wolves howl at the moon.

From the absurd (lemmings commit mass suicide) to the misinformed (Thomas Edison invented the light bulb) to the seemingly logical (cats purr when they re happy), The Book of Myths & Misconceptions sets the record straight on hundreds of topics

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Edward Moser, is no talking head, but a historian and long-time author. A former speechwriter for the President of the United States, and an ex-Editor of Time-Life Books, he was also a writer for Jay Leno’s “The Tonight Show”. He is the author, co-author, or editor of 14 published books, on such subjects as history, politics, humor, and technology.

His latest is Femme Fatalité: A Lizzy Thorne Spy Novel--

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

His previous work is The Old Town Horror, Murder and Theft in America's Most Historic Locale--

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

His previous book, from Lyons Press, was The Lost Capitol, The Hidden and Tumultuous Saga of Congress and the Capitol Building--

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-History-C...

Another book of his, from McFarland, is The White House's Unruly Neighborhood: Crime, Scandal & Intrigue in the History of Lafayette Square:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

A previous, on Presidents, politics, & history, is The Two-Term Jinx!--

(https://www.amazon.com/Two-Term-Jinx-...).

Turner Publishing Company published his work, A to Z of America--

http://www.amazon.com/Patriots-Americ..., a series of vignettes on famous events and personalities in U.S. history.

Ntm his satire Foundering Fathers--

http://www.amazon.com/Foundering-Fath...) spoofs today’s official Washington.

He also runs a popular tour of the White House and Lafayette Square areas of Washington, D.C.

https://www.meetup.com/washarea-disco...

https://www.facebook.com/LafayetteSqu....