DAVID HOWARD - With Tale Of NC's LOST RIGHTS

David Howard visits with LOST RIGHTS, the story behind NC's long-lost copy of the original Bill of Rights.  From its theft at the end of the Civil War, through FBI stings, this hunt for a piece of NC's history is a true life crime story.  David Howard traces the 138-year journey of North Carolina's  original copy of the Bill of Rights.

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Lost Rights: The Misadventures of a Stolen American Relic (Hardcover)

By David Howard

$26.00

ISBN-13: 9780618826070
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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 7/2010

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Near the close of the Civil War, as General Sherman blazed his path to the sea, an unknown infantryman rifled through the North Carolina state house.The soldier was hunting for simple Confederate mementos—maps, flags, official correspondence—but he wound up discovering something far more valuable. He headed home to Ohio with one of the touchstones of our republic: one of the fourteen original copies of the Bill of Rights. Lost Rights follows that document’s singular passage over the course of 138 years, beginning with the Indiana businessman who purchased the looted parchment for five dollars, then wending its way through the exclusive and shadowy world of high-end antiquities—a world populated by obsessive archivists, oddball collectors, forgers, and thieves— and ending dramatically with the FBI sting that brought the parchment back into the hands of the government.  For fans of THE BILLIONAIRE'S VINEGAR, LOST RIGHTS is “a tour de force of antiquarian sleuthing” (Hampton Sides).

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