At the close of the Civil War, an unknown infantrymanrifled through the North Carolina Statehouse as GeneralSherman blazed his path to the sea. The infantrymanhoped to find anything of obvious value, but what hefound instead would someday be worth far more. Hereturned with one of the touchstones of our Republic:one of the fourteen original copies of the Bill ofRights.
Lost Rights follows that document's singular passage- a crime yarn that unravels over the course of 138years, beginning with the Indiana businessman whopurchased the stolen Bill for five dollars, then windingits way through the elite and shadowy world of raredocuments collectors, and ending dramatically withthe FBI sting that brought the parchment back into thehands of the government.