Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations)

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333 pp. "The author of the bestselling Citizens reconstructs--and at times reinvents--the death of General James Wolfe at the battle of Quebec in 1759 and the 1849 murder of the Bo ston brahmin George Parkman, whose nephew would become Wolfe's biographer. What Schama achieves is "a mind-teasing delight."--The New York Times Book Review. Photographs." Show more