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Hoax : Hitler's diaries, Lincoln's assassins, and other famous frauds
- Title
- Hoax : Hitler's diaries, Lincoln's assassins, and other famous frauds / Edward Steers, Jr. ; foreword by Joe Nickell.
- Author
- Steers, Edward, Jr., 1937-
- Publication
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2013.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 235 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Investigates six of history's biggest frauds, looking at how the hoaxes were carried out and what continued belief in them reveals about society's understanding of history.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-225) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-3540
- ISBN
- 9780813141596 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0813141591 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012047314
- OCLC
- 818735081
- Author
- Steers, Edward, Jr., 1937-
- Title
- Hoax : Hitler's diaries, Lincoln's assassins, and other famous frauds / Edward Steers, Jr. ; foreword by Joe Nickell.
- Imprint
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2013.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-225) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-3540