role of the $3,000 reward? The $483 mortgage? The turkey? (what are the source(s) for this chapter?) what is the intent of the account of Webster's dispute with Littlefield & Webster's inquiries about the vault? how did Littlefield get on with Webster? How did he make his living? first from the perspective and the mind of Francis Tukey (who was?) & then from Littlefield's perspective (source?) why would the next chapter focus on Ephriam Littlefield? ENTERPRISE: THE JANITOR- Friday, November 30, 1849.why the story about Audubon and the Golden Eagle? 1834, p. George Parkman? fast walk up grove street at 10 to 2? Pinel?- monomanie "What would such a person look like? A bank clerk? A Preacher? A doctor? A professor of Harvard College?," p. narrator is the grocer- why? In what ways is this chapter as much about madness as about murder? How is the 1813 European Tour of Dr. INCOME: THE PEDESTRIAN- Friday, November 23, 1849.Chapter ends with a bitter reflection on the Mexican War (Briggs was opposed?), disillusionment with politics? Theme: Once convicted, nothing could save John White Webster? 86, money is the root of all evil, from the mind of a man whose education was "three years in a hatter's shop?", p. Perhaps Schama is really commenting on his view that virtue & the social order of the 1840s was collapsing in the 1840s as men persued the almighty dollar? "Pecunia radix omnium malorum est," p. How can we be sure that Briggs knew all the Parkmans let being certain that "He thought of the Parmans in particular and their pilgrimages and progresses," p. how convincing is Schama's use of Briggs's voice throughout the chapter (esp. problems facing Briggs?: defence not clear confession "could not be wholly credited," p. But where lay the truth, the real history of George Parkman and John White Webster? p. "Yes, yes, folly and lies, fairy tales and fables. what credence should be given to confessions such as that on p. capital punishment has Briggs already begun to follow? how is Briggs contrasted to the Boston of Marshall Tukey (who was?)? 1850? (correspondence) of the City on A Hill (theory of "had they fallen then, the Elect?", p. how does the chapter help our understanding of America c. Why a chapter focused on George Nixon Briggs? Irony in letter that railes against capital punishment by threatening to burn Briggs's house down? What technique of writing is Schama using in this chapter? How successful is he? How convincing? 73-170ĭiscussion topics: What are Schama's goals in writing this section of Dead Certainties and how well does he achieve them?