Wicked Newport: Sordid Stories from the City by the Sea

by Larry Stanford

Book Overview

Take a trip with Larry Stanford through 350 years of Newport's hidden, dark history.

Founded by a small band of religious freedom seekers in 1639, Newport, Rhode Island, subsequently became a bustling colonial seaport teeming with artists, sailors, prosperous merchants and, perhaps most distinctively, the ultra-rich families of the Gilded Age. Clinging to the lavish coattails of these newly minted millionaires and robber barons...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596293438
• ISBN13: 9781596293434
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"