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On Sept 3, 1901, a Protestant missionary named Ellen Stone lay out on horseback over the mountainous hinterlands of Balkan Macedonia and was ambushed by way of a band of armed revolutionaries. In The Miss Rock Affair, Teresa Carpenter re-creates an event that captured the attention of the world and posed a problem for incoming chief executive Theodore Roosevelt. Should he submit the Navy or not? And, if so, send it where? Drawing upon an abundance of contemporary correspondence and documents, Carpenter constructs a narrative that is suspenseful, harrowing, and sometimes even comical. It really is a story for our time.
