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The Miss Stone Affair : America's First Modern Hostage Crisis
Overview
Previewed Week of October 4, 2004 On September 3, 1901, a Protestant missionary named Ellen Stone set out on horseback across the mountainous hinterlands of Balkan Macedonia and was ambushed by a band of armed revolutionaries. In "The Miss Stone Affair," Teresa Carpenter re-creates an event that captured the attention of the world and posed a dilemma for incoming president Theodore Roosevelt. Should he send in the Navy or not? And, if so, send it where? Drawing upon a wealth of contemporary correspondence and documents, Carpenter constructs a narrative that is suspenseful, harrowing, and at times even comical. It is a story for our time.
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- ISBN-13: 9780743258050
- ISBN-10: 0743258053
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publish Date: July 2004
- Dimensions: 8.34 x 5.74 x 0.65 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.56 pounds
- Page Count: 238
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