In 1815, a Vermont businessman ships a giant cheese to Washington, D.C. to honor America's greatest military hero, Tennessee's General Andrew Jackson. The cheese vanishes. The government receives a ransom note. Payment isn't an option. If news of the cheese's disappearance becomes public, north and south will blame each other for the insult. A nation still divided after three years of war could split apart. Over a commemorative cheese? Cassius Lightner,...