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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Echo of Lions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Again blending fact and fiction in what she calls a "nonfiction novel," Chase-Riboud (Sally Hemings) chronicles an important chapter of American historywith uneven success. |
 | | Arrested, accused of murder on the high seas and piracy, Cinque and 38 others are imprisoned for years in Connecticut, finally tried, acquitted, then re-tried in the Supreme Court (where they are defended by ex-president John Quincy Adams) and, in a landmark decision, released. |
 | | Didactic, repetitious, more history than fiction, this book, commemorating the 150th anniversary of Cinque's rebellion, is nonetheless a moving testament to the triumph of sheer survival and the tragic limitations of victory. |
| www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0688064078 (328 words) |
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