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Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century by Andrew Wender Cohen

Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century

Andrew Wender Cohen

384 pages hardcover 2015

2 editions

nonfiction history mystery informative slow-paced
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In the frigid winter of 1875, Charles L. Lawrence made international headlines when he was arrested for smuggling silk worth $60 million into the United States. An intimate of Boss Tweed, gloriously dubbed "The Prince of Smugglers," and the head o...

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