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Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century
Contraband Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century
Author: Andrew Wender Cohen
In the frigid winter of 1875, Charles L. Lawrence made international headlines when he was arrested for smuggling silk worth $60 million into the United States. An intimate of Boss Tweed, gloriously dubbed “The Prince of Smugglers,” and the head of a network spanning four continents and lasting half a decade, Lawrence scandalized a n...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393065336
ISBN-10: 0393065332
Publication Date: 8/24/2015
Pages: 384
Edition: Illustrated
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Book Type: Hardcover
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