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Originally Posted by Little.Egret
Maybe it's a compilation of public domain biographies plus the public domain appendix?
by L. Carroll Judson (Author), John (Lawyer) Jay (Author), Helen M. Campbell (Author), Emory Speer (Author)
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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
If I was duped, apparently several others were too, what with the ebook having the #1 seller rating in two categories at the Kindle store. But I admit that sometimes I am too gullible.
Prior to posting an item, I try to glance, at least, at the publisher's name to see if it is familiar. I did that with this book. "Madison & Adams" was certainly not a name that I was familiar with, but, from a Google search, it looked like it had done some publishing. I thought it odd, however, that it had the same name as two of the people covered in the book.
If it is a cut-and-paste job, please accept my apology. Even if it is an amalgamation of public domain stuff, however, I hope that it might have some (minor) value.
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I did a little more research on this. I hate being wrong. ha
If the following publisher is the same as the Madison & Adams of said ebook, then the publisher of the ebook looks legitimate. But, it sure is a really, really strange publisher, if it is.
First of all,
the website for Madison & Adams is totally, except for the titles on the thumbnails of the ebooks, which are in English, in what I what I think is the Turkish language. You (well, I anyway) have to translate the webpages into English in order to understand the text surrounding the thumbnails of the ebooks. So, because of this, and
the website address, the publisher appears to be Turkish.
None of the books, however, appear to be in any language other than English! Furthermore, probably about half of the ebooks deal in some way with the United States, and especially with the years just prior to the American Revolution, and the years just after it. This book in question is, of course, about the Founding Fathers of the United States, all of which probably were heavily involved in the Revolution in some way. However, I could not find this particular ebook, Founding Fathers - The Men Behind the Revolution, etc. among the catalogue of books that they publish. Keep in mind, however, that this ebook in question was published just over a month ago, and the publisher may not have gotten around to updating their website.
Seemingly oddly, most of the rest of the catalogue of Madison & Adams seems to be oriented toward helping terrorists. However, after you think about it, that subject is not completely unrelated to the founding of the United States. It's not politically correct to say this, but if some of the guys associated with the American revolution were alive today, they would be considered terrorists by much of the rest of the world, because of some of the actions that they carried out.