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A penniless, illiterate, Jewish thirteen year old from Alsace-Lorraine crosses the Atlantic alone. He lands in raucous, polyglot, disease-infested New Orleans in 1837, the third largest city in America. He remains unable to read or to write in English or in French his entire life. Nevertheless, by the end of his intrigue-filled career, Leon Godchaux is the owner of fourteen plantations, the largest tax-payer in the state - the acknowledged "S...

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From Jonathan Yardley in the Washington Post: "Engaging...delightful ... Wolf returns to the Big Easy after a protracted Yankee education at Exeter and Yale, joins his father's firm in the cotton trade, takes up lodgings on Burgundy Street at the edge of the French Quarter and hangs out at places the mere mention of which sends shivers of pleasure down my spine."Reminiscent of This Boy's Life, Peter Wolf's true saga of family burden and escapi...

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