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Death of an Empire

Name: Death of an Empire
ISBN: 9781429990264

The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City

Robert Booth,

351 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

Death of an Empire

The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City

Robert Booth,

About this book

"A masterfully told story of greed, recklessness, murder, and the precipitous decline of Salem, one of young America's greatest ports . . . a chilling tale." —Eric Jay Dolin, bestselling author of Left for Dead

Though notorious for the witch trials of 1692, Salem was the richest city in the republic when America first became a nation. It was led by a visionary merchant who still ranks as one of the wealthiest men in history. For decades, Salem connected America with the wider world, through a large fleet of tall ships and a pragmatic, egalitarian brand of commerce that remains a model of enlightened international relations.

But America's emerging big cities and westward expansion began to erode Salem's national political importance just as its seafaring economy faltered in the face of tariffs and global depression. With Salem's standing as a world capital imperiled, two men, equally favored by fortune, struggled for its future: one, a progressive merchant-politician, tried to build new institutions and businesses, while the other, a reclusive crime lord, offered a demimonde of forbidden pleasures. The scandalous trial that followed signaled Salem's fall from national prominence, a fall that echoed around the world in the loss of friendly trade and in bloody reprisals against native peoples by the U.S. Navy.

Death of an Empire is an exciting tale of a remarkably rich era, shedding light on a little-known but fascinating period of American history in which characters such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Quincy Adams, and Daniel Webster interact with the ambitious merchants and fearless mariners who made Salem famous around the world.

"Beautifully written and impeccably researched . . . a stranger than fiction family saga." —Brunonia Barry, New York Times–bestselling author

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