A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans by Michael Farquhar

So you end up with two female pirates on the same ship - Anne Bonnie and Mary Read, which is great. And among the crew on this ship they take over is a woman disguised as a man. They go around, she screams like a banshee, wields this giant, you know, broad sword and they take over a ship. And together the swashbuckling cutthroat crew terrorized the West Indies. But Rackham made an exception for his girlfriend. Women were obviously never allowed on pirate ships. FARQUHAR: Well, appears she was but she was also apparently a little unbalanced from the get-go. SEABROOK: Even though she was from sort of the old South Carolina aristocracy. He recognized that certain savage something in her. FARQUHAR: She was a little bit off-centered woman from South Carolina who met up with this pirate, Calico Jack Rackham. FARQUHAR: I mean, nothing like a female pirate to pique my interest. We always seem to ignore them in favor of the familiar icons. Because these are the second tier of American history, the overlooked, neglected notables. I would love this to do well so I can write ten more volumes.

FARQUHAR: Yeah, and 30 is frustrating because there's thousands of these people who need to be rescued. Now, I love that your book is 250 pages long and it has 30 biographies in it. MICHAEL FARQUHAR (Author, 'A Treasure of Foolishly Forgotten Americans'): Thanks for having me, Andrea. Author Michael Farquhar has a new book of them called 'A Treasure of Foolishly Forgotten Americans.' These are people who for some reason official history has overlooked. Here's a very short introduction to an equally short subject: mini-biographies.

A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans by Michael Farquhar