| Description |
xi, 266 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
The Gullibility Test (Questions) -- Ch. 1. Before 1700: Female Popes and Vegetable Lambs -- Ch. 2. The Eighteenth Century: Rabbit Babies and Lying Stones -- Ch. 3. 1800-1868: Lunar Bison and Solar Armor -- Ch. 4. 1869-1913: Stone Giants and Antlered Rabbits -- Ch. 5. 1914-1949: New Jersey Martians and Van Gogh's Ear -- Ch. 6. 1950-1976: Naked Animals and Swiss Spaghetti Trees -- Ch. 7. 1977-1989: Australian Icebergs and Cockroach Pills -- Ch. 8. 1990-1999: Crop Circles and Cross-Dressing Ken -- Ch. 9. After 2000: Bonsai Kittens and Monster Cats -- The Gullibility Test (Answers) -- Hoaxes by Category |
| Summary |
"A remarkable collection based on the author's popular Web site, Alex Boese's The Museum of Hoaxes is a fascinating historical tour of hundreds of documented hoaxes, many collected here for the first time. Read about the curiosities and cons of the most notorious hornswogglers and flimflam men of the nineteenth century; be astounded at the impostors, pretenders, and tricksters of the twentieth." "The Queen of England, Jimmy Carter, the editors of The New York Times - no one is immune to the cunning of history's hoaxers. It's all here, from the origin of April Fools' Day to Nixon's final presidential bid in 1992, from the War of the Worlds to recent Internet hoaxes. And the Gullibility Test promises to challenge even the most trivia-savvy among us. ..."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Inlcudes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [247]-255 |
| Subject |
Impostors and imposture -- Museums.
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Fraud -- Museums.
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Impostors and imposture.
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Fraud.
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| LC no. |
2002026780 |
| ISBN |
0143001183 : |
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