Treasury of Deception Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History's Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes, and Frauds

Name: Treasury of Deception Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History's Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes, and Frauds
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ISBN: 9780143035442

ISBN-10: 0143035444

ISBN-13: 9780143035442

Edition: 2005

Authors: Michael Farquhar

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This is a themed collection of humorous and infinitely quotable accounts of some of the greatest deceptions of all time, from the media to the mob to P.T. Barnum.

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/31/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.28" wide x 7.99" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English

Michael Farquhar,a former writer and editor at The Washington Post, is the bestselling author of the Penguin Treasury series.




Super-dupers



Charlatan's web



A taste for trickery



"Prince of humbugs"



Unreal estate



Imposter on a role



CHINcanery



All the news that's slipped to print



What Janet cooked up



Ben Franklin : the devil made him do it



A poe excuse for a hoax



The Sun promises the moon



The hoax that roared



Extra! : greed all about it!



False alarm



Mencken up history



Khmer ruse



Times bomb



The wars of the ruses



The agony of deceit



Sun's burn



A bridge too far?



Stretching the troops



Warning : smoking may be hazardous to your success



Drowned and dirty : the man who never was



Phantom force



State-sponsored deceptions



A bogus bequest



Three kings with aces up their sleeves



Cardinal sin



Tricking a fight



The lies and fraud of the Third Reich



Elena's padded resume



Gadhafi : dead to rights



Red, white, and not always true



Science fictions



Monkey business



Bunny tale



Casting stones



A hoax in perpetuity



Diagnostic deception



A naked lie



Duplicity



Fantastic forgeries and literary frauds



Shrouding the truth



To be ... or not to be the bard



They just can't be etruscted



French fraud



A thin vermeer



Not quite the surreal deal



"Con man of the year"



Fuhrer over a fraud



Murder, ink



The deadliest lies ever told



The blood libel



The protocols of the elders of Zion



Witchcraze



A big red lie



What in the name of God!



The great pretenders



The paupers who would be prince



Tsar struck



Queen-wanna-be



A school of Dauphins



The last Tsarevna?



Escapes hatched



A bloody good ruse



Cross-dressed for success



Special delivery from bondage



Sneak retreat



Out of Colditz



Gotcha!



No shot, Sherlock : an unlikely fairy tale



The weirdest thing you ever sawed



Home delivery



A ruse of one's own



Practically indecent : Alan Abel and the siege of Troy



Plucking pasta and pulling legs



Painting the town purple



Underhand pitches



Ten tricksters from scripture



Ten great liars in literature



Ten classic deceptions from Greek mythology



Ten egregious examples of modern American doublespeak