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 mementos—maps; flags; official correspondence—but 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 document’s 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 shadowy world of high-end antiquities—a world populated by obsessive archivists; oddball collectors; forgers; and thieves— and ending dramatically with the FBI sting that brought the parchment back into the hands of the government. For fans of The Billionaire’s Vinegar and The Lost Painting; Lost Rights is “a tour de force of antiquarian sleuthing†(Hampton Sides).
#246587 in Books Cengage Learning 2006-08-01Ingredients: Example IngredientsOriginal language:EnglishPDF # 1 .56 x 7.38 x 9.28l; 1.20 #File Name: 0534627390352 pages
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