Lost Rights（ISBN=） 英文原版

“Howard takes us on twisted, sometimes madcap journey exploring
what people will do to get and keep a sacred national treasure.”
(Minneapolis Star Tribune )”A page-turner.” (New York
Times )

At the close of the Civil War, an unknown infantrymanrifled
through the North Carolina Statehouse as GeneralSherman blazed his
path to the sea. The infantrymanhoped to find anything of obvious
value, but what hefound instead would someday be worth far more.
Hereturned with one of the touchstones of our Republic:one of the
fourteen original copies of the Bill ofRights.

Lost Rights follows that document’s singular passage- a crime
yarn that unravels over the course of 138years, beginning with the
Indiana businessman whopurchased the stolen Bill for five dollars,
then windingits way through the elite and shadowy world of
raredocuments collectors, and ending dramatically withthe FBI sting
that brought the parchment back into thehands of the
government.

DAVID HOWARD is a freelance journalist and writer whose work has
appeared in the New York Times, Outside, Mens
Journal, Backpacker, Travel + Leisure,
National Geographic Adventure, Business 2.0, and
other publications. For the last two years he has worked as an
editor at Bicycling Magazine.  –AUTHOR’S
RESIDENCE
Orefield, Pennsylvania