Charles Slack Books
Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
Challenges popular misconceptions about the nineteenth-century female tycoon's character to explore her considerable accomplishments in the world of finance at a time before women were legally able...
Read MoreNoble Obsession
"The world had never seen such a substance. Bouncy, stretchable, and moldable - rubber seemed like the miracle stuff of the early nineteenth century. But a major problem soon became clear - it melt...
Read MoreLiberty s first crisis
"When the United States government passed the Bill of Rights in 1791, its uncompromising protection of speech and of the press were unlike anything the world had ever seen before. But by 1798, the...
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