Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City by Robert Booth

Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City

Robert Booth

352 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark mysterious slow-paced
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Most readers know Salem only for the city's notorious witch trials. But years later it became a very different city, one that produced America's first millionaire (still one of history's 75 wealthiest men) and boasted a maritime trade that made it...

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