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Not a Ghost of a Chance

From the December 1997 Print Edition

Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser Doubleday, 347 pages, $27.95 The Gunpowder Plot was a foiled attempt by a group of English Catholic aristocrats to blow up Parliament on opening day, November 5, 1605, with King James I presiding. The plotters aim was to ignite a . . . . Continue Reading »