Lost rights : the misadventures of a stolen American relic /

Lost rights : the misadventures of a stolen American relic /

This remarkable American story follows the long, shadowy trail of a single document, North Carolina's wayward copy of the Bill of Rights. With ratification of the first ten amendments to the Constitution in 1789, fourteen elegantly handwritten copies were drafted, one for each of the original s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Howard, David, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2010]
Subjects:
United States. > Constitution. > 1st-10th Amendments.
Lost articles > North Carolina > History.
Theft of relics > North Carolina > History.
Manuscripts > Collectors and collecting > United States.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Confiscations and contributions.
North Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Confiscations and contributions.
Table of Contents:
  • A break-in
  • The natural
  • The $4 treasure
  • The grain man
  • Best friends
  • The document hunter
  • The leaves of the sybil
  • Strangers
  • The art dealer
  • The bookseller
  • The buyer
  • A revelation
  • Time runneth not against the king
  • The joy of illegitimate possession
  • Nowhere fast
  • The sky's the limit
  • Just a regular guy
  • Deception
  • Special delivery
  • The thump on the door
  • Blow-back
  • The great divide
  • Another way
  • Postscript.