Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century

by Andrew Wender Cohen

Book Overview

In the frigid winter of 1875, Charles L. Lawrence made international headlines when he was arrested for smuggling silk worth $60 million into the United States. An intimate of Boss Tweed, gloriously dubbed "The Prince of Smugglers," and the head of a network spanning four continents and lasting half a decade, Lawrence scandalized a nation whose founders themselves had once dabbled in contraband.

Since the Revolution itself, smuggling had...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393065332
• ISBN13: 9780393065336
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"