Jim Defilippi

Murka Jim Defilippi

Murka: A Variant History of the United States ...tells the stories of history that you have never heard. Learn now these fascinating individuals, from here and around the world, each helped to make our country what it is today: "As a philosopher tried to explain to St. Thomas Aquinas why Free Will does not exist, Thomas refused to listen." "George Washington retired to mount Vernon, but would also mount Martha when in the mood for more traditional, heterosexual action." "When Adolph Hitler came to power, he decreed that the title of Führer always be spelled with those two little dots over the U, believing that the tiny Smiley Face would help soften his image." Ü "Albert Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results. When nobody listened, he said it three or four more times." "The pricks from many different pins caused the housing bubble to burst in 2008, but one of the biggest was Alan Greenspan." "Ped Xing, the Vice Premier of China, vowed that a street sign on every street in the West would someday display his name." ...and much, much more. Over 500 pages of never-before-told insights into our national heritage.