Hoax : Hitler's diaries, Lincoln's assassins, and other famous frauds / / Edward Steers, Jr. ; foreword by Joe Nickell

• Autore: Steers Edward
• Pubblicazione: Lexington, KY, : University Press of KY, c2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 001.9/5
• Soggetto topico: Fraud - History; Hoaxes - History; Impostors and imposture - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Oath of a freeman : the king of forgers -- Pearl Harbor: treachery in the Oval Office? -- Hah Hitler! the Hitler diaries -- The shroud of turin : tell me what you want to believe and I will tell what you will believe -- Skullduggery : the man who never was -- The missing pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary.
• Sommario/riassunto: Did a collector with a knack for making sensational discoveries really find the first document ever printed in America? Did Adolf Hitler actually pen a revealing multivolume set of diaries? Has Jesus of Nazareth's burial cloth survived the ages? Can the shocking true account of Abraham Lincoln's assassination be found in lost pages from his murderer's diary?Napoleon famously observed that ""history is a set of lies agreed upon,"" and Edward Steers Jr. investigates six of the most amazing frauds ever to gain wide acceptance in this engrossing book. Hoax examines the legitimacy of the
• Titolo autorizzato: Hoax
• ISBN: 9780813141602; 0813141605; 9781299283916; 1299283918; 9780813141619; 0813141613
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910967189003321
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