Redbeard the Magnificent A Yankee in the Court of the Russian Tsar is the tale of two nations whose leaders went stark raving crazy and nearly ran their countries right off the rails in the Great Age of Steam. But it’s also the story of freedom loving people from all across the world as the wars and chaos of the nineteenth century swirls around them. From the fifteen year old Baltimore stable boy who cherishes his harbor home and would do anything to save her, to Miss Harriet Tubman and her slave stealing expedition on the Chesapeake Bay, and sweet Signora Fungini and her magical mushrooms on the French Riveira, to the Bonaparte princess with her palace full of Bohemian artists painting pictures of nymphs and satyrs frolicking in a tropical forest, and the Romanoff brothers fighting for power in the land of the firebird, while the Cossacks and wild Russian musicians enjoy life to the fullest. This is not your typical work of historical fiction, but the facts are all there for anyone to see (including the worst act of treason to go unpunished in United States history), and I can guarantee you that Redbeard and his wild and crazy friends will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you see that there are freedom loving people all over this great green globe. Patrick W Dentry