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

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

Booth, Robert

Hardcover

19th Century United States HistoryRegional: New EnglandTrue Crime

Publisher Price: $39.99

ISBN10: 0312540388
ISBN13: 9780312540388
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: Aug 16 2011
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

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.

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