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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Thomaston, Maine :
Tilbury House Publishers,
2016.
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| Edition: | First hardcover edition. |
| Series: | History in 50.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Eaton, Gale, |d 1947- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 2 | |a A History of Ambition in 50 Hoaxes / |c Gale Eaton ; introduction by Phillip Hoose. |
| 246 | 3 | |a History of ambition in fifty hoaxes | |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a 50 Hoaxes |
| 250 | |a First hardcover edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Thomaston, Maine : |b Tilbury House Publishers, |c 2016. | |
| 300 | |a xvi, 270 pages : |b illustrations (some color), maps ; |c 25 cm. | ||
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| 490 | 1 | |a History in 50 | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-265) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The original Trojan horse. What really happened at Troy? -- The forgery underlying the power of medieval popes. Constantine, Christian emperor of the Greek East and the Latin West -- A letter from the mythical Prester John. Imagining the world -- Did Marco Polo really go to China? Mandeville's travels -- The world's most mysterious book. A question of motives ; Invented languages -- Was Lambert Simnel a lost prince? Henry Tudor's claim to the throne ; The history of Crowland Abbey: a forged source? -- Michelangelo fakes an antiquity. A patriotic monk glorifies his hometown -- A mythical island appears on maps of the North Atlantic. Missing and misidentified islands -- Secrets of an imaginary alchemist. Paracelsus, scientific rebel -- The stagecraft of Athanasius Kircher. Kircher's museum: a scientific distraction? -- Dr. Beringer reads lying fossils. Interpreting fossils in 1725 -- An ancient bard awes the literary world. England and Scotland -- Benjamin Franklin pretends to be the King of Prussia. Benjamin Franklin's witch hoax -- The Potemkin village: more than just a pretty façade. Newly discovered Shakespeare play jeered by theater-goers. Literary forgery as an eighteenth-century epidemic -- An astronomer discovers intelligent life on the Moon. Voyages to the Moon deemed more plausible than microorganisms in a drop of water ; April fools -- The Walam Olum: 90 generations of oral history or a hoax? Slanting history -- Was the Fejee mermaid a genuine fake? How do you make a mermaid? -- The Fox sisters invent spiritual telegraphy. Was there really a murdered peddler? ; Spiritual telegraphy and Benjamin Franklin -- Faking a trip to gold rush territory. Getting to San Francisco -- When giants roamed the earth. Mark Twain's petrified man -- The Keely Motor Company promises efficient world travel. Scientific progress and perpetual motion -- The case of the lying encyclopedia. Wikipedia -- Extracting gold from seawater. Viking runes in Minnesota. Scythian gold at the Louvre. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a A conspiracy to justify murder. Conspiracy theories and the damage done -- A future great novelist helps hoax the Royal Navy. HMS Dreadnought and the lead-up to World War I -- Missing link found at Piltdown. The Piltdown chicken ; How do scientists decide which bones to trust? -- Naked man conquers Maine woods. Naked publicity gimmicks and hoaxes ; Isolated living in Biosphere 2 -- The spectric poets unmasked. Two spectric poems -- The original Ponzi scheme. Pyramid schemes -- Fairies are caught on camera. Why Arthur Conan Doyle believed in fairies -- Did Grand Duchess Anastasia survive the Revolution? Princess Caraboo -- Houdini debunks a medium. Other ways of knowing: science and new religions -- If you believe that, I have a tower to sell you. Unloading the Eiffel Tower -- The Loch Ness Monster. Standards of evidence and scientific names -- Martians attack. The BBC panics Britain -- Operation Mincemeat deludes Hitler. The classic Haversack Operation: 1917 -- Dutch artist arrested for selling a Vermeer to Hermann Göring. Detecting art forgeries -- The cursed tomb of the last Aztec emperor. Tombs of heroes -- Donald Crowhurst vanishes at sea. Yachting technology -- The Tasaday: a stone-age tribe or a hoax? Survivals from the dawn of humanity -- A faked autobiography of Howard Hughes. A memoir of life with wolves -- Moon landing conspiracy theory. Scientific literacy -- Genuine fake Hitler diaries. Why 1983? -- More lying stones: Moroccan fossils in the Himalayas. Why the scientific record needs setting straight -- Crop circle artists confess. The will to believe -- Physicist Alan Sokal spoofs postmodern scholarship. Legislating pi ; Scholarly journals and the peer review process -- Joining the campaign to ban DHMO. Getting both sides of the story -- Microsoft technical support. Curses and crashing computers: frightening the marks. | |
| 520 | |a 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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| 650 | 0 | |a Ambition |x History |v Miscellanea |v Young adult nonfiction. | |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Hoose, Phillip M., |d 1947- |e writer of introduction. | |
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