
The Most Underrated People in History Include a U.S. President, Soviet Officer, and a Farmer Who Saved 2 Billion Lives
History Unplugged Podcast
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Israel Putnam
I think I'd agree mostly. You could argue that when you look at someone who's underrated, you're kind of looking more totality of career as opposed to one specific moment. Israel Putnam doesn't get a song about or a poem written about him even though arguably what he did was more important for American history than the great writer Paul Revere. Oh, Israel Bissell sounds like a revolutionary war guy too. Yeah,. He was a general. But anyways, just to put it out there, because you can say, oh, well, altogether, it wasn't just this one moment, but it was kind of sustained excellence that's ignored.
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