The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York Economic Policy & Development especially those who have experienced

especially those who have experienced trauma

a town blessed with natural beauty yet plagued by small-town feuds and heated racial tension

and keenly moving

Features 39 tracks on 2 CDs and includes 2 booklets that contain extensive notes celebrating 50 years of singing and songwriting by one of the truly great artists of the 20th century

ISBN13: 9780470196120 ISBN10: 0470196122 Material Type: hardcover

The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York Economic Policy & Development especially those who have experiencedIn the summer of 1841, Mary Rogers disappeared without a trace from her New York City boarding house. Three days later, her body, badly bruised and waterlogged, was found floating in the shallow waters of the Hudson River just a few feet from the Jersey shore. Her story, parlayed into a long celebrated unsolved mystery, became grist for penny presses, social reformers, and politicians alike, and an impetus for popular literature, including Edgar Allen