A History of Ambition in 50 Hoaxes
The history of scam artists is both entertaining and revealing, a unique and telling lens through which to view human progress.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Thomaston, Maine :
Tilbury House Publishers,
2016.
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| Edition: | First hardcover edition. |
| Series: | History in 50.
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| Summary: | The history of scam artists is both entertaining and revealing, a unique and telling lens through which to view human progress. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 270 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-265) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780884484929 0884484920 9780884484653 0884484653 |
| Author Notes: | GALE EATON (Wakefield, RI) has spent a lifetime with books for children and young adults, first as a children's librarian at the Boston Public Library and the Berkshire Athenaeum, and later as a professor of children's literature at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. She is the author of three other books including A History of Civilization in 50 Disasters . |
