Hoax
a history of deception : 5,000 years of fakes, forgeries, and fallacies
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Author
Contributions
- Névraumont, Peter, author - Contributor
Publication
2018 - Black Dog & Leventhal, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
61,000 words, Guess
Page Count
244 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780316503723
- ISBN-10031650372X
- ISBN-139780316503709
- ISBN-100316503703
- Library of Congress Control Number2017039798
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Number993420087
- Better World Books9780316503723
- Better World Books9780316503709
- Open LibraryOL26963259M
Classifications
- DDC001.9/509
- LCCD10 .T38 2018
- LCCD10.T38 2018
Description
"An entertaining collection of the most audacious and underhanded deceptions in the history of mankind, from sacred relics to financial schemes to fake art, music, and identities. World history is littered with tall tales and those who have fallen for them. Ian Tattersall, a curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, has teamed up with Peter Névraumont to create this anti-history of the world, in which Michelangelo fakes a masterpiece; Arctic explorers seek an entrance into a hollow Earth; a Shakespeare tragedy is 'rediscovered'; a financial scheme inspires Charles Ponzi; a spirit photographer snaps Abraham Lincoln's ghost; people can survive ingesting only air and sunshine; Edgar Allen Poe is the forefather of fake news; and the first human was not only British but played cricket. Told chronologically, HOAX begins with the first documented announcement of the end of the world from 365 AD and winds its way through controversial tales such as the Loch Ness Monster and the Shroud of Turin, past proven fakes such as the Thomas Jefferson's ancient wine and the Davenport Tablets built by a lost race, and explores bald-faced lies in the worlds of art, science, literature, journalism, and finance"--
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