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The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch

byMiles Harvey

In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a rural town in New York. Drawing on biographical detail, personal testimony, and historical context, the narrative gives The King of Confidence a concrete sense of time, place, and consequence. Across the book, the tale of utopian dreamers, frontier schemers, true believers, false prophets, and the murder of becomes a way to examine power, adaptation, responsibility, and change within biography & autobiography and true crime.

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Publication date

Jul 14, 2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

416

ISBN

9780316463591