โ Scribed by Wiley, Richard
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Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show is the prequel to Richard Wiley's PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel, Soldiers in Hiding. A sword-swinging page-turner infused with a heady mix of Japanese etiquette, American ideals, and Machiavellian philosophy, Wiley's novel sparkles as it shapes history into an enlightened drama of the earliest moments of globalization.
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> > In 1853, few Japanese people knew that a country called America even existed. > > For centuries, Japan had isolated itself from the outside world by refusing to trade with other countries and even refusing to help shipwrecked sailors, foreign *or* Japanese. The country's people still lived under