American Phoenix

Contents

Author’s Note: Recalling the Ones Who Were

PART 1: JOURNEY INTERRUPTED

1. Murder Outside

2. Thief Inside

4. The Crossing

PART 2: JOURNEY BEGINS

6. Good-bye, Boston Birches

8. Three Hundred Americans

9. Caricature vs. Character

10. All the World’s a Stage

11. Baltic Circle

14. Eve’s Leaves

15. Loneliness and Splendor

16. When in Rome . . .

17. French Économie

21. Winter Woes

22. Contradictions

23. Pretense and Propriety

24. Plato’s Beard

26. Fencing Pirates

27. French Choice

28. French Accomplice

30. American Cinderellas

31. Christening

33. New Year’s Bang

34. Exit Strategy

35. French Cooling

36. Recall and Relocation

37. Correspondence and Contractions

38. Supreme Recall

39. Summer Solstice

40. The Removal

41. The Confinement

42. Christening Reprise

44. Baltic Freeze

45. Interference

48. Enemy Within

49. Impressment

PART 3: JOURNEY RESURRECTED

53. American Phoenix

54. Queen of Hearts

55. King of Spades

56. “The Star-Spangled Banner”

Epilogue: The Birches of Boston

Acknowledgments

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