{"product_id":"9780743258050","title":"The Miss Stone Affair : America's First Modern Hostage Crisis","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Miss Stone Affair\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Teresa Carpenter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn September 3, 1901, a Protestant missionary named Ellen Stone set out on horseback across the mountainous hinterlands of Balkan Macedonia and was ambushed by a band of armed revolutionaries.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Miss Stone Affair,\u003c\/i\u003e Teresa Carpenter re-creates an event that captured the attention of the world and posed a dilemma for incoming president Theodore Roosevelt. Should he send in the Navy or not? And, if so, send it where? Drawing upon a wealth of contemporary correspondence and documents, Carpenter constructs a narrative that is suspenseful, harrowing, and at times even comical. It is a story for our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e Marvelously exotic...the sensuous atmosphere of Salonica at dawn....A wild beautiful landscape is contested by scholarly anarchists and harem-bred militias...no one was completely guilty, no one completely innocent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdmonton Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Wow. This book is amazing -- part adventure tale, part cautionary parable. It is proof that first-rate nonfiction need be neither boring nor pedantic. It can, in the hands of a brilliant writer, take even the most obscure and forgotten of events as its subject and still fascinate and educate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e A Byronic adventure and an early lesson in the perils of international power for the U.S....It's a gripping yarn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780743258050\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40591858925774,"sku":"9780743258050","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_0737c74e-6b30-4694-a7e7-1aa79f3ce860.jpg?v=1637758135","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780743258050","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}