Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City

Booth, Robert: - Robert Booth graduated from Harvard and from Boston University's graduate program in New England and American Studies. His guidebook Boston's Freedom Trail has been in print for twenty-five years and he has contributed to the anthology Salem: Place, Myth & Memory. He is curator emeritus of the Pickering House in Salem and serves on the boards of several history organizations. He lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts.