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The classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in Salon called “a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan humor, as
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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A nationally syndicated columnist furnishes an eye-opening exposé that reveals how a small cadre of economic hucksters, obsessed with radical ideas that benefi
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Pages: 362
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This book examines a broad range of infamous scams, cons, swindles, and hoaxes throughout American history—and considers why human gullibility continues in an
The Mark Inside
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In 1919, Texas rancher J. Frank Norfleet lost everything he had in a stock market swindle—twice. But instead of slinking home in shame, he turned the tables o
THE BIG CON
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An analysis of what lies behind the unprecedented measures taken in response to the current COVID crisis by means of the techniques of Reverse Speech, by the Fo