American eccentrics / Carl Sifakis.
A collection of 140 biographies of American individualists.
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Table of Contents:
- Stephen Bachiler: The Amorous Parson
- Anonymous: The Oldest American
- Sam Hyde: The Crazy Indian
- John Rogers: Tumultuous John
- Edward Hyde Cornbury: The Peculiar Governor
- Bathseba Bowers: Love's Solitaire
- Benjamin Lay: The Rebellious Gnome
- John Richardson: The Great Seducer
- Joseph Moody: Handkerchief Moody
- Samuel Andrew Peters: The Lying Episcopalian Parson
- Mother Ann Lee: Ann the Word
- Elisha Perkins: The First American Quack
- Mary Burton: The Great Informer
- Tom Cook: The Leveller
- Timothy Dexter: The Luckiest Speculator
- Anonymous: The Naked Beachcomber
- John McQuain: The Man Who Hated Womankind
- Francis Adam Joseph Phyle: The Hermit of Mount Holly
- Jemima Wilkinson: Publick Universal Friend
- Sarah Bishop: The Atrocity Hermitess
- Johann Georg Rapp: God's Partner
- William Augustus Bowles: The Adventurer Crank
- Robert the Hermit: The Bitter Recluse
- John Randolph: The Flute-Voiced Sage of Roanoke
- John Chapman: Johnny Appleseed
- Lorenzo Dow: The Eccentric Cosmopolite
- David Wilbur: The Pumpkin Scratcher
- John Cleves Symmes: The Hollow Earther
- Richard M. Johnson: The Sometime Vice President
- William Miller: Prophet of Doom
- Theophilus Gates: The Battle Axe of Sex
- Joseph Palmer: Battler for the Beard
- Sylvester Graham: The Apostle of Eating Morality
- James Lick: The Folly-Builder
- James Johns: The Compulsive Journalist
- John McDowall: The Whorefinder General
- Richard Harper: Chicago's Old Vagrant
- George W. Henry: The Holy Shouter
- Albert Large: The Hermit Amidst the Wolves
- Jane Means Pierce: The President's Phantom Lady
- Sam Patch: The Great Descender
- Daniel Pratt: The Great American Traveler
- "Windwagon" Thomas Smith: The Dry Ocean Sailor
- John Humphrey Noyes: The Meticulous Free Lover
- James Wilson Marshall: The Man Who Owned California's Gold
- Lee Ah Bow: Devil Appo
- Maria Mond: The Joan-of-Arc of the Know-Nothings
- Dennis O'Sullivan: The Bum Who Dined at Astor
- Joshua A. Norton: Norton I, Emperor of the United States
- Boston Borbett: The Man Who Killed John Wilkes Booth.
- Jules Bourglay: The Old Leather Man
- John Johnston: "Ole Liver-Eating" Johnston
- George Francis Train: The Champion Crank
- Hinton Rowan Helper: The Bigoted Abolitionist
- John Allen: "Wickedest Man in New York"
- Black Bart (Charles E. Bolton): The Outlaw Po-8
- Dr. Mary Walker: America's Self-Made Man
- Dick Barter: Rattlesnake Dick
- Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street
- Ellen Walsh: The Fake Socialite
- Cyrus Reed Teed: The Inside-Out Man
- Sarah Pardee Winchester: The Unfinished mansion
- George "Snatchem" Leese: Sporting Man
- Lillie Coit: "5"
- Anthony Comstock: The Great American Bluenose
- Charles R. Sherman: Huckleberry Charlie
- John Alexander Dowie: The Bluenose of Zion
- Martha Jane Cannary: Calamity Jane
- Nick Goodall: Nick the Fiddler
- Charles Kusz: Mr. Hate
- Henrietta Edwardina Schaefer Garrett: The Love-struck Recluse
- Robert Matthews: Matthias The Impostor
- Jack Ferguson and Pete Wells: The Gold Field Spendthrifts
- Joe Higginbotham: Buckskin Joe
- Dan Pound: The Imitation Prospector
- Lizzie Collins: The Collector
- Charlie Parkhurst: The Secretive Stagecoach Driver
- Thomas Greene Bethune: Blind Tom
- John Sutliff: The Lost Mole
- John Curran: The Jail Groupie
- James "Butt" Riley: Frisco Hardhead
- Oofty Goofty: Masochist's Delight
- John "One Lung" Curran: The Cop-Hating Bard
- Johnny Alee: The Eatiest Fool
- James A. Harden-Hickey: King Without a Country
- Marshall B. Gardner: The Genius Unappreciated
- William Tattenbaum: The Saga of Russian Bill
- Bet-A-Million (John W.) Gates: The King of the Lungers
- James Buchanan "Diamond Jim" Brady: Greatest of the Gourmands
- Frederick Wittrock: The Grand Confessor
- Stephen Senior: The Perth Amboy Miser
- Frederick Henry Prince; The Germ-Free Princes
- Cornelius K.G. Billings: Horseback Billings
- "Black jack" Tom Ketchum: The Second Stupidest Outlaw
- Joseph Bivens, Jr.: "Coxey" Bivens the Caveman
- Sam Ketchum: The Stupidest Outlaw
- Edmund Franz Creffield: Joshuah II
- James Eads How: The Millionaire Hobo
- Ned Green: The Profligate Spendthrift
- Mary Mallon: "Typhoid Mary"
- Florence Foster Jenkins: First Lady of the Sliding Scale
- Bernarr MacFadden: Body Love MacFadden
- James Leo "One-Eyed" Connelly: World Champion Gate-Crusher
- Alfred William Lawson: The Greatest
- Wilbur Glenn Voliva: Kind of the Flat Earthers.
- A. Van Horne Stuyvesant: The Last Stuyvesant
- Charlotte and Katherine Poillon: Strong-Armed Pinups
- William Smith: The Future Mayor of Chicago
- Sylvia Green Wilks: Hetty Green's Daughter
- William Henry "Burro" Schmidt: The Human Mole
- Charles Fort: The Enigma
- George Francis Gillette: The Einstein Chaser
- Emerich Juettner: Mr. 880
- Charles G. Gates: Great Plunger II
- Erich Muenter: Dr. Muenter and "Mr. Hyde"
- Ota Benga: The Zoo Man
- Homer and Langley Collyer: The Shy Men of Harlem
- Theodore Coneys: Spiderman of Moncrieff Place
- "Dr." John R. Brinkley: Goat Gland Brinkley
- Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly: The Luckiest Fool Alive"
- Edward Leedskalnin: The Compulsive Builder of Coral Castle
- Anonymous: The French Maid
- Hugo Diederich: The Mad Barber
- George Adamski: The First Encounterer
- Stanley Clifford Weyman: Impostor for Fun
- The Cherry Sisters: Best of the Worst
- Tommy Manville: The Constant Bridegroom
- William James Sidis: The Infant Prodigy
- James Marion West, Jr.: "Silver Dollar" West
- Jimmy Slattery: Greatest Liver Who Ever Fought"
- Helen Brach: The Cinderella Recluse
- Wendel Sisters: Family of Misers
- Oric Bovar: The Charismatic Master Bovar
- Rose Dym: Broadway Rose
- John R. Keys: The 1.27-a-week Miser
- Helene and Beatrice Herzog: Refugees from Crime
- Ferdinand Waldo Demara, Jr.: The Grand Impostor
- The Romero Family: The Guests Who Wouldn't Check Out
- Sandra Ilene West: A Ferrari is Forever
- Morris Pop Corn: Pop Corn for the Suckers.