| Title | : | The Miss Stone Affair: America's First Modern Hostage Crisis (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Teresa Carpenter |
| Release | : | 2013-06-18 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | History |
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| 1 | The Miss Stone Affair: America's First M | Teresa Carpenter |
| 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. |
