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Author:
Howard, David, 1967-
Title:
Lost rights : the misadventures of a stolen American relic / David Howard.
Edition:
1st Mariner Books ed.
Publisher:
Mariner Books,
Copyright Date:
2011, c2010
Description:
344 p. ; 21 cm.
Subject:
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--Confiscations and contributions.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Confiscations and contributions.
North Carolina--Confiscations and contributions.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Confiscations and contributions.
Notes:
Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
Traces the 138-year journey of an original copy of the Bill of Rights, describing how the document wended its way through the shadowy world of high-end antiquities before an FBI sting returned it to government hands.
ISBN:
0547520212
9780547520216 (pbk.)
LCCN:
bl2013026470
Locations:
DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

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