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Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History’s First Global Manhunt
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35/100Critics
53/100Scholars
Author:
Steven Johnson
Publisher:
Riverhead Books
Date:
May 12, 2020
The New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Map and How We Got to Now returns with the story of a pirate who changed the world.
What The Reviewers Say
Steven Johnson argues with verve and conviction in his thoroughly engrossing Enemy of All Mankind.
... [a] page-turner of a book.
... despite his subtitle — A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History’s First Global Manhunt — [Johnson's] detailed account of Every’s exploits and the attempts to bring him to justice is not a straightforward narrative of crime and punishment on the high seas. Johnson instead uses Every’s remarkable story as the organizing principle for a kaleidoscopic rumination on the ways in which a single event, and the actions of a handful of men with no obvious access to the levers of state power, can change the course of history.
Johnson is one of those polymath writers who links events and subjects most of us wouldn’t see as related, always to enlightening effect.
