A review by treehuggeranonymous
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young

1.0

Did not finish, but got as far through it as I could before I just gave up. This is such an interesting topic - scams - so why was it soooooo boring. And why was it organised so weirdly - it seemed to jump forward from the 1920s to 1990s in a mere sentence. I don't know if it goes back in time after that, cos you'd hope a book on scams would want to spend some time talking patent medicine. This book feels suspiciously like it started as an article specifically about a few modern scams (mostly the million little pieces guy that is gone on about forever) and other material was dragged out to make it book length.