Preferred Shelf Number:
973 PUL
First Title value, for Searching:
American treasures : the secret efforts to save the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address
First Author value, for Searching:
Puleo, Stephen, author.
ISBN:
9781250065742
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Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xv, 415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Abstract:
"On December 26, 1941, Secret Service Agent Harry E. Neal stood on a platform at Washington's Union Station, watching a train chug off into the dark ... These were dire times: as Hitler's armies plowed across Europe, seizing or destroying the Continent's historic artifacts at will, Japan bristled to the East. The Axis was rapidly closing in. So FDR set about hiding the country's valuables. On the train speeding away from Neal sat four plain-wrapped cases containing the documentary history of American democracy: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, and more, guarded by a battery of agents and bound for safekeeping in the nation's most impenetrable hiding place"-- Provided by publisher.
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