The Powell Papers: A Confidence Man Amok Among the Anglo-American Literati by Hershel Parker

The Powell Papers: A Confidence Man Amok Among the Anglo-American Literati

Hershel Parker

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nonfiction biography classics literary reflective medium-paced

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In 1849--months before the term "confidence man" was coined to identify a New York crook--Thomas Powell (1809-1887), a spherical, monocled, English poetaster, dramatist, journalist, embezzler, and forger, landed in Manhattan. Powell in London had ...

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