Hoaxes
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Hardcover, FINE, brown cloth boards hand bound by Dr. McLay Millter, 338 pp. B & W illustrations. Updated edition with mention of more than 25 entirely new incidents has been added; discovery of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0486204650
ISBN13:9780486204659
Release Date:January 1958
Publisher:Dover Publications
Length:338 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
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Still The Best Source
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Though written ages ago, MacDougall's book on hoaxes is the best place to go to get a thoruough grounding in the colorful history of the hoax. As a journalism prof at the Medill School at Northwestern, he and his students collected everything they could for decades, and there are hundreds of examples here-- it makes for amusing reading. My favorite is Pavel Jordanovitch and his new art "ism," Disumbrationism. Oy! People used to be so gullible! (Used to be?? Check the latest at Snopes.com to see the same old hoaxes still fooling millions every year.) So: if you're looking into hoaxes, begin with "Hoaxes."
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