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Joshua Norton: American Emperor... - Daniel Alef

Joshua Norton: American Emperor and Protector of Mexico

Daniel Alef
Amazon Digital Services LLC , English
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California and New York have had their share of titans, moguls and tycoons, but only California can boast of having been the home of an emperor: Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. This improbable story of Joshua Norton has captured the hearts and minds of people such as Mark Twain, David Belasco, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Herbert Asbury; Norton even made a brief appearance on Star Trek! Some called Norton a fraud, a wealthy man who was a miser; others hailed him as a visionary. His acceptance in San Francisco--he even issued his own scrip--and his prescient proclamations, dissolving Congress prior to the Civil War, calling for an end to political corruption and fraud, or the construction of a bridge across San Francisco Bay, could not have occurred in any city but San Francisco or in any other era. Award-winning author Daniel Alef tells the strange and fascinating true story of America's only emperor. [1,741-word Titans of Fortune article]

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