Miracles and Massacres: True and Untold Stories of the Making of America

Dedication

To the man in Preston, Idaho, who stood and asked me when I would start “writing history as stories to make them more interesting”;

To the congressman who stopped himself in the middle of telling me that the history elitists wouldn’t like it if I make history entertaining;

And to my son, Raphe, who has curled up next to me to read great American stories, giving me memories I will never forget.