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Based on the life of a genuine soldier who claimed to own fought at Bunker Hill, Israel Potter is unique among Herman Melville's catalogs: a novel in the guise of a biography. In sharing with the storyplot of Israel Potter's street to redemption from Revolutionary Warfare hero to peddler on the pavements of London, where he obtained a livelihood by crying "Old Chairs to Mend," Melville alternated between invented displays and historical episodes, granting cameos to such famous men of the time as Benjamin Franklin (Potter may have been his secret courier) and John Paul Jones, and providing a portrait of the American Revolution as the rollicking adventure and violent series of events that it really was.
