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Review by: Mandy Apgar
Terribly dull
and quite different from what I was expecting reading the dust jacket.
Instead of an examination of smuggling as to how it plays into the US
economy and history like I thought instead the
book is mostly concerned with the pitfalls of a particular groups of
individuals generations ago trying to find new ways to evade old laws.
They are of course caught, which is irrelevant more or less. Book
heavily goes into, time and again, the stereotype of
the period (late Victorian) that many Jewish persons were smugglers. You
already said "no" once, you don't have to say it again. Although trying
to make that point is a bit off when your central personae are all
Jewish smugglers.
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