Bunk: The True Story of Hoaxes, Hucksters, Humbug, Plagiarists, Forgeries, and Phonies by Kevin Young

Bunk: The True Story of Hoaxes, Hucksters, Humbug, Plagiarists, Forgeries, and Phonies

Kevin Young

nonfiction history psychology sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

560 pages | first published 2017

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Has the hoax now moved from the sideshow to take the center stage of American culture?Kevin Young tours us through a rogue's gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers from the humbug of P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe to the unrepentan...
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