The Sugar King
Wolf, Peter M![The Sugar King](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/428/42899527/CHSBZCOP0342899527.jpg)
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...