HERMAN MELVILLE

Why read a book from 1857 which flopped so badly as commercial literature that Melville stopped writing and ended his career as a customs official? Because this book masterfully explores the entire nature of trust, confidence and cons. Though the setting is a riverboat on the Mississippi River just before the U.S. exploded into Civil War, its in...

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A tale offered in the guise of literal biography presuming to offer an accurate life history of the man Israel Potter who fought at Bunker Hill. It presents famous men of the American Revolution - Benjamin Franklin, John Paul Jones, Ethan Allen, and o ...