The Museum of Hoaxes
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Based on the author's popular website, Alex Boese's <i>The Museum of Hoaxes</i> takes readers on a tour of hundreds of documented hoaxes, many published here for the first time. You'll read about the curiosities and cons of the most notorious hornswogglers and flimflam men of the nineteenth century; you'll be astounded at the impostors, pretenders, carnies, and tricksters of the twentieth. Learn how Edgar Allan Poe got away with an astonishing literary deception. Or how P. T. Barnum turned hoaxing the public into big business. It's all here, from the origin of April Fools' Day to the Taco Liberty Bell, from Bigfoot to the War of the Worlds to recent Internet hoaxes. There's also a Gullibility Test that challenges readers to answer the question: "Would these hoaxes have fooled YOU?" Written with both humor and historical insight, and complete with photographs and illustrations, <i>The Museum of Hoaxes</i> will be the gift book of choice for anyone who has ever been duped, deceived, tricked, or trumped . . . or just likes watching the pros in action.
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The Museum of Hoaxes, Alex Boese
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2002
- Reliure
- (rigide),
- État du livre
- Bon
- Prix
- 6,09 €
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- Titre
- The Museum of Hoaxes
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Alex Boese
- Éditeur
- Dutton Adult
- Publié
- 2002
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN10
- 0525946780
- ISBN13
- 9780525946786
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Thème historique, Bandes dessinées, Manuels et guides, Humour, Science, États-Unis, Fraudes
- Description
- Based on the author's popular website, Alex Boese's <i>The Museum of Hoaxes</i> takes readers on a tour of hundreds of documented hoaxes, many published here for the first time. You'll read about the curiosities and cons of the most notorious hornswogglers and flimflam men of the nineteenth century; you'll be astounded at the impostors, pretenders, carnies, and tricksters of the twentieth. Learn how Edgar Allan Poe got away with an astonishing literary deception. Or how P. T. Barnum turned hoaxing the public into big business. It's all here, from the origin of April Fools' Day to the Taco Liberty Bell, from Bigfoot to the War of the Worlds to recent Internet hoaxes. There's also a Gullibility Test that challenges readers to answer the question: "Would these hoaxes have fooled YOU?" Written with both humor and historical insight, and complete with photographs and illustrations, <i>The Museum of Hoaxes</i> will be the gift book of choice for anyone who has ever been duped, deceived, tricked, or trumped . . . or just likes watching the pros in action.