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The boat on which Edna Ferber based her famous novel brought
excitement and entertainment to isolated small towns up and down
the East Coast in early twentieth-century America. The builder of
the boat, James E. Adams, was a farmer from Michigan who taught
himself to be a circus aerialist, started and prospered with his
own carnival company, and later, when retirement proved boring,
decided to build himself a showboat. The book traces the history of
the James Adams from its inception until its demise twenty-seven
years later, a tale that includes fires, sinkings, a shooting,
arrests, and even several deaths.
"Papa Toussaint," a novel based on history, chronicles the efforts
of the former slave, Toussant Louverture, to create in Haiti a
nation based on the equality of all races. The colonial countries
work to inflame racial tensions on the island, and finally Napoleon
sends an army to reestablish slavery.
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