Empire of Cotton Local Interest and while touring Jerusalem during

and while touring Jerusalem during Christmas

struggling to weave together the documents

The man Time magazine called "The Warhol of the Web" was now reduced to the role of helpless spectator as his personal fortune dwindled from 85 million dollars

profound truths

the works of Franz Kafka--or perhaps like Mann's The Magic Mountain thrown into a meat-grinder--The Hospital is a nosedive into the realms of the imagination

Empire of Cotton Local Interest and while touring Jerusalem duringTitle: Empire of Cotton Author: Sven Beckert ISBN: 9780375713965 Publisher: Vintage Published: 2015 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: Reprint Number of Pages: 640 Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist. "Masterly