Thomas J. Craughwell

Thomas J. Craughwell's books

Stealing Lincoln's Body

3.69 avg rating — 1,302 ratings

Thomas Jefferson's Creme Brulee: How a Founding Father and His Slave James Hemings Introduced French Cuisine to America

3.50 avg rating — 929 ratings

Saints Behaving Badly: The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, Con Men, and Devil-Worshippers Who Became Saints

3.64 avg rating — 447 ratings

St. Peter's Bones: How the Relics of the First Pope Were Lost and Found . . . and Then Lost and Found Again

3.89 avg rating — 313 ratings

Urban Legends

3.94 avg rating — 265 ratings

The Rise and Fall of the Second Largest Empire in History: How Genghis Khan's Mongols Almost Conquered the World

3.92 avg rating — 246 ratings

Failures of the Presidents: from the Whiskey Rebellion and War of 1812 to the Bay of Pigs and War in Iraq

3.50 avg rating — 192 ratings

Alligators in the Sewer and 222 Other Urban Legends: Absolutely True Stories that Happened to a Friend...of a Friend...of a Friend

3.61 avg rating — 161 ratings

How the Barbarian Invasions Shaped the Modern World: The Vikings, Vandals, Huns, Mongols, Goths, and Tartars who Razed the Old World and Formed the New

3.56 avg rating — 162 ratings

5,000 Years of Royalty: Kings, Queens, Princes, Emperors & Tsars

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 110 ratings