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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9781590200865
In 1874, a young boy named Charley Ross was snatched from his
front yard in Philadelphia. The child’s father received a letter
that read: “Mr. Ross; be not uneasy you son charley bruster be
all writ. we is got him and no powers on earth can deliver out of
our hand. You wil have two pay us before you git him from us, and
pay us a big cent to.”
Philadelphia had just won the bid to host America’s centennial
celebration. The country had survived revolution, civil war, and
recession, and city politicians were eager to prove the country had
matured enough to survive another hundred years. What they couldn’t
foresee was how a child’s kidnapping threatened to unravel social
confidence and plunge a city into despair. Hagen expertly weaves
this historical narrative as we see Philadelphia’s mayor fight to
preserve his city’s stature, and watch the manhunt spread from
Philadelphia to the streets of New York. Based on a tremendous
amount of research, the author accurately captures the darker side
of America–with its corrupt detectives, thief-catchers,
spiritualists, and river pirates–as a country in which innocence
had become an ideal of the past.
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