A History of Ambition in 50 Hoaxes (History in 50) - Hardcover

Eaton, Gale

 
9780884484653: A History of Ambition in 50 Hoaxes (History in 50)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0884484653 ISBN 13: 9780884484653
Verlag: Tilbury House,U.S., 2019

Inhaltsangabe

The con artists in this book pursued a variety of ambitions―making money, winning wars, mocking authority, finding fame, trading an ordinary life for a glamorous one―but they all chose the lowest, fastest road to get there.   Every hoax is a curtain, and behind it is a deceiver operating levers and smoke machines to make us see what is not there and miss what is. As P.T. Barnum knew, you can short-circuit critical thinking in any century by telling people what they want to hear. Most scams operate on a personal scale, but some have shaped the balance of world power, inspired explorers to sail uncharted seas, derailed scientific progress, or caused terrible massacres. A HISTORY OF AMBITION IN 50 HOAXES guides us through a rogue’s gallery of hustlers, liars, swindlers, imposters, scammers, pretenders, and cheats. In Gale Eaton’s wide-ranging synthesis, the history of deception is a colorful tour, with surprising insights behind every curtain.  

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Gale Eaton 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 four other books.

Phillip Hoose is the widely acclaimed author of books, essays, stories, songs, and articles including the National Book Award - and Newbery Honor - winning book Claudette Colvin: Twice toward Justice and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor winner The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club. A graduate of Indiana University and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, Hoose was for 37 years a staff member of The Nature Conservancy, dedicated to preserving the plants, animals, and natural communities of the Earth.

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Publisher Marketing: What do the Trojan Horse, Piltdown Man, the Keely Motor Company, and the Cottingley Fairies have in common? They were all famous hoaxeslies, carefully designed and bolstered with false evidence. The hoaxsters in this book harbored a variety of ambitions: making money, winning World War II, or mocking parents and other authorities. Ideas about what to fake and how to fake it trend with the times. But as P.T. Barnum knew, you can short-circuit critical thinking in any century by telling people what they want to hear. As captured by Gale Eaton's exuberant sleuthing and nonfiction artistry, the history of scam artists is both entertaining and revealing, a unique and telling lens through which to view human progress. Includes a glossary of technical terms; sources by chapter; teaching resources as jumping-off points for student research; and endnotes.

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Verlag
Tilbury House,U.S.
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0884484653
ISBN 13 
9780884484653
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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