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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Table of Contents:
- 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.
- 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.
