Pishey Thompson – Man of Two Worlds
Isabel BaileyA well written book bringing to life a man of considerable significance in USA in the 1820s and 30s. The rather shadowy, dry and very proper figure of Pishey Thompson as bank official and author of a monumental history of Boston in England is presented here as a very human man with strengths and failings. He was a highly successful, and then bankrupt, bookseller in Washington City, USA. Pishey Thompson was naturalised as an American but lived the last 15 years of his life, and died, in London, England.