Author(s): Nathan Raab; Luke Barr

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Each day, people from all over the world contact Nathan Raab for help understanding what they have, what it might be worth, and how to sell it. The president of the Raab Collection, he is a modern-day treasure hunter and one of the world's most prominent dealers in rare historical artifacts. Most weeks, Raab is on the move, bidding at auctions, chasing leads, and fielding phone calls and emails from people who think they may have discovered in their attics items both consequential and precious. In The Hunt for History, Raab spots a communiqué from British officials who secured the Rosetta Stone; restores a fragmented letter from Andrew Jackson that led to the infamous Trail of Tears; brings to light Thomas Jefferson's instructions to his clerk Meriwether Lewis; and even locates a long-missing audiotape that was recorded on Air Force One in the aftermath of the assassination of JFK. Whether it's the first report of Napoleon's death, or the discovery of Amelia Earhart's entry form for an early airplane race, every document and artifact Raab uncovers comes with a spellbinding story-and new insights into history we thought we knew. Book jacket.