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Summary: A fun and frisky romp through the bedrooms of yesteryear.
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It seemed to me that history classes took all the life outout of the past leaving a shell of battle dates and wars. I never really cared about that. This book puts back what history teachers (and time) took out: The Smut! This book is an easy read as it has a lot of humor served in doses of one to two paragraphs. The subject is not wartime strategies...well, not on the battlefield. Cleopatra's seduction of Marc Anthony was better planned than most military skirmishes, and was far more successful with only one moonstruck casualty. I would recommend this book for anyone who loves history, and even for those that found it tedious in school. It is essentually a fun and frisky romp through the bedrooms of yesteryear.
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Summary: Fascinating Facts That Our History Teacher Never Mentioned
Review: In this book Zacks has compiled an extensive collection of facts about how Sex played a major role in history. The more I read, the more amazed I was at how history is cleansed of these realities before we are taught it in school. This book has made me hungry to dig up other books that fill in the blanks in my knowledge of the past.
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Summary: History Laid Bare
Review: This book is where you go to learn the things they wouldn't teach in school.
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Summary: Keep a spare copy of this one just in case
Review: This is a book likely to be stolen from your coffee table for its delicious romp through the back rooms of history. It's full of bawdy stories and poetry about history's most notorious figures written (mostly) during their lifetimes. You will laugh out loud at the verse about Julius Caesar's promiscuity and the size of King Charles II's "royal sceptre", the humorous epigrams of the great Roman satirists, the wit of Mark Twain, and the sexual superstitions of the past. It more than fills the void left by PLAYBOY when it ended the Classic Ribaldry section years ago because many of the entries are about real people whose names you've heard in history lessons since you were a child. My only complaint about this book is that it isn't longer with even more stories about Napoleon, Thomas Jefferson, and everyone else who seems larger than life. This book adds to their humanity.
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