Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City

Booth, Robert

ISBN 10: 0312540388 / ISBN 13: 9780312540388

Verlag: Thomas Dunne Books, 2011

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Most readers know Salem only for the city's notorious witch trials. But years later it became a very different city, one that produced America's first millionaire (still one of history's 75 wealthiest men) and boasted a maritime trade that made it the country's richest city. Westward expansion and the industrial revolution would eventually erode Salem's political importance, but it was a shocking murder and the scandal that followed which led at last to its fall from national prominence.

Death of an Empire is a finely-written tale of a little-known but remarkably rich era of American history, drawing in characters such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Quincy Adams, and Daniel Webster.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: ROBERT BOOTH's guidebook Boston's Freedom Trail has been in print for twenty-five years and he has contributed to the anthology Salem: Place, Myth & Memory. He is curator emeritus of the Pickering House in Salem and serves on the boards of several history organizations. He lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

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Titel: Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous ...
Verlag: Thomas Dunne Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: good