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A history of ambition in 50 hoaxes / Gale Eaton ; introduction by Phillip Hoose.

by Eaton, Gale, 1947-

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Tilbury House Publishers, c2016.

History -- Miscellanea

Hoaxes -- History -- Miscellanea

Ambition -- History -- Miscellanea

9780884484653 (hc)

0884484653 (hc)

Alternate title:

History of ambition in fifty hoaxes

1st hardcover ed.

xvi, 270 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-265) and index.

The original Trojan horse -- The forgery underlying the power of medieval popes -- A letter from the mythical Prester John -- Did Marco Polo really go to China? -- The world's most mysterious book -- Was Lambert Simnel a lost prince? -- Michelangelo fakes an antiquity -- A mythical island appears on maps of the North Atlantic -- Secrets of an imaginary alchemist -- The stagecraft of Athanasius Kircher -- Dr. Beringer reads lying fossils -- An ancient bard awes the literary world -- Benjamin Franklin pretends to be the King of Prussia -- The Potemkin village: more than just a pretty façade -- Newly discovered Shakespeare play jeered by theater-goers -- An astronomer discovers intelligent life on the Moon -- The Walam Olum: 90 generations of oral history of a hoax? -- Was the Fejee mermaid a genuine fake? -- The Fox sisters invent spiritual telegraphy -- Faking a trip to gold rush territory -- When giants roamed the earth -- The Keely Motor Company promises efficient world travel -- The case of the living encyclopedia -- Extracting gold from seawater -- Viking runes in Minnesota -- A conspiracy to justify murder -- A future great novelist helps hoax the Royal Navy -- Missing link found at Piltdown -- Naked man conquers Maine woods -- The spectric poets unmasked -- The original Ponzi scheme -- Fairies are caught on camera -- Did Grand Duchess Anastasia survive the Revolution? -- Houdini debunks a medium -- If you believe that, I have a tower to sell you -- The Loch Ness Monster -- Martians attack -- Operation Mincemeat deludes Hitler -- Dutch artist arrested for selling a Vermeer to Hermann Göring -- The cursed tomb of the last Aztec emperor -- Donald Crowhurst vanishes at sea -- The Tasaday: a stone-age tribe or a hoax? -- A faked autobiography of Howard Hughes -- Moon landing conspiracy theory -- Genuine fake Hitler diaries -- More lying stones: Moroccan fossils in the Himalayas -- Crop circle artists confess -- Physicist Alan Sokal spoofs postmodern scholarship -- Joining the campaign to ban DHMO -- Microsoft technical support.

What do the Trojan Horse, Piltdown Man, Keely Motor Company, and Ponzi Scheme have in common? They were all famous hoaxes, carefully designed and bolstered with false evidence.

Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-

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