When Egypt Went Broke

Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Jean-Achille Benouville and George Bellows. Egypt, Maine — a mill town — goes broke when the bank fails, and a scheme to print local currency, a mill owner, and a young man with nothing to lose take it from there. Day was a Maine newspaperman whose books are full of loggers, river drivers and small-town politicians; the tit...