Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Contraband

Author: Andrew Wender Cohen
Stars: 1
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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