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A colorful narrative history of colonial America traces the development of the Dismal Swamp Company, which proposed draining and developing a vast region along the Virginia/North Carolina border, and the schemers, scalawags, and dreamers involved in the failed scheme. 10,000 first printing.
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"Here is a narrative history of scope and of abundance, a fascinating story." --The Washington Times
"Vivid. . . . plunges readers into the rough world of colonial capitalism--a world swarming with adventurers, aristocrats, fools, rogues and visionaries all wearing masks of gentility." --The News & Observer (Raleigh)
"A veritable encyclopedia of early American get-rich-quick schemes." --Men's Journal
"[Royster] is a seasoned stylist, and tells this colorful story in rich detail." --The Washington Post
"Imagine Barbarians at the Gate with lace cuffs." --Wilton Barnhardt
-Here is a narrative history of scope and of abundance, a fascinating story.- --The Washington Times
-Vivid. . . . plunges readers into the rough world of colonial capitalism--a world swarming with adventurers, aristocrats, fools, rogues and visionaries all wearing masks of gentility.- --The News & Observer (Raleigh)
-A veritable encyclopedia of early American get-rich-quick schemes.- --Men's Journal
-[Royster] is a seasoned stylist, and tells this colorful story in rich detail.- --The Washington Post
-Imagine Barbarians at the Gate with lace cuffs.- --Wilton Barnhardt
About the Author
Charles Royster is Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University. His previous books include A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783, which won the Francis Parkman Prize, and The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans, which won a Bancroft Prize and the Lincoln Prize.
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- PublisherAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0679433457
- ISBN 13 9780679433453
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages622
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