Publisher's Synopsis
"This book is not a biography of Amasa Stone. It is what historians have categorized as microhistory. Rather than being a full orbed history of Amasa Stone's life, this book is attempt, in historian Jill Lapore's words, to trace the elusive subject, Amasa Stone, through "slender records" and "address a small mystery," in this case the collapse of a bridge and the fairness or unfairness of labeling Stone as a "murderer" which many people did"--.
