The Miss Stone Affair: America's First Modern Hostage Crisis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780743258050)

On September 3, 1901, a Protestant missionary named Ellen Stone set out on horseback across the mountainous hinterlands of Balkan Macedonia and was ambushed by a band of armed revolutionaries.
In The Miss Stone Affair, Teresa Carpenter re-creates an event that captured the attention of the world and posed a dilemma for incoming president Theodore Roosevelt. Should he send in the Navy or not? And, if so, send it where? Drawing upon a wealth of contemporary correspondence and documents, Carpenter constructs a narrative that is suspenseful, harrowing, and at times even comical. It is a story for our time.

Author: Teresa Carpenter
ISBN-10: 0743258053
ISBN-13: 9780743258050
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2004
Pages: 238
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.74w x 0.65d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 07/11/2004 pg. 24