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David Howard

Lost Rights

The Misadventures of a Stolen American Relic

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Near the close of the Civil War, as General Sherman blazed his path to the sea, an unknown infantryman rifled through the North Carolina state house.The soldier was hunting for simple Confederate mementosmaps, flags, official correspondencebut he wound up discovering something far more valuable. He headed home to Ohio with one of the touchstones of our republic: one of the fourteen original copies of the Bill of Rights. Lost Rights follows that documents singular passage over the course of 138 years, beginning with the Indiana businessman who purchased the looted parchment for five dollars, then wending its way through the exclusive and shado… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-547-48710-6
  • EAN: 9780547487106
  • Produktnummer: 35590585
  • Verlag: HMH Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 352 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 640 KB

Über den Autor


David Howard is a freelance journalist and writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Outside, Men's Journal, Backpacker, Travel + Leisure, National Geographic Adventure, Business 2.0, and other publications. He is the executive editor of Bicycling magazine.

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