Enemy of All Mankind Johnson Steven
Enemy of All Mankind Johnson Steven "Thoroughly engrossing . . . The press published wildly popular--and wildly inaccurate--reports of his nefarious adventures. a spirited, suspenseful, economically…
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Enemy of All Mankind Johnson Steven
"Thoroughly engrossing . . . The press published wildly popular--and wildly inaccurate--reports of his nefarious adventures. a spirited, suspenseful, economically told tale whose significance is manifest and whose pace never flags." --The Wall Street JournalFrom The New York Times-bestselling author of The Ghost Map and Extra Life, the story of a pirate who changed the worldHenry Every was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate.
But Steven Johnson argues that Every's most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering of a major shift in the global economy. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. Enemy of All Mankind focuses on one key event--the attack on an Indian treasure ship by Every and his crew--and its surprising repercussions across time and space. It's