The Leviathan: The Greatest Untold Story of the Civil War, Hardcover/Paul Stack

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Description In September 1861, on the cusp of a winter storm in the North Atlantic, three men altered the fate of the world by pulling off one of the greatest acts of American espionage. In England, cradle of the Industrial Revolution, the world's largest machine was created-a giant iron steamship 60 years ahead of its time. The Scientific American warned that this colossus "could run down the whole of the largest steamers in any other fleet, one after another, without firing a single shot." The mission of the three Americans was to stop this colossus from entering a southern port without anyone ever knowing what transpired. Inspired by true events, The Leviathan is a story of treason, espionage, and geopolitics; a family sundered by the conflict between the states; and of British capitalists lusting to dismember the United States for their own benefit. About the Author Paul Stack has been a practicing lawyer in Chicago for over 47 years. A graduate of the University of Arizona and Georgetown University's law school, he has worked as a law clerk for a federal judge, as an Assistant United States Attorney, and as the founder of his own law firm. In his hometown of Riverside, Illinois, Stack has served at various times as village president, a member of the high school's board of education, and library trustee. He was appointed by Chicago's Mayor Harold Washington to advise him on Chicago's new central library. The brand-new building which resulted ultimately was named the Harold Washington Library Center after the death of Mayor Washington. Stack has been for many years a governing member of the Chicago Zoological Society which operates the Brookfield Zoo, one of the nation's largest and most prestigious zoological parks.