Great forgers and famous fakes : the manuscript forgers of America and how they duped the experts
1996
098.3 H219 1996
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Title
Great forgers and famous fakes : the manuscript forgers of America and how they duped the experts
Edition
2nd ed., rev. and enl.
Published
Lakewood, Colo. : Glenbridge Publishing, 1996.
Description
xxiv, 294 p. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 29 cm.
Call Number
098.3 H219 1996
System Control No.
(OCoLC)35266566
Note
Text in double columns.
Includes index.
Contents: Preface: How to outwit the modern forger -- Twelve forgers of Honest Abe -- The nine bibles of Stonewall Jackson : Thomas Chancellor -- George Washington to order : Robert Spring -- The dapper Baron of fakedom : Charles Weisberg -- The financier who turned forger : Henry Woodhouse -- He forged his father's poems : Eugene Field II -- Wizard of the pen : Joseph Cosey -- The scion of a pirate : John Lafitte -- The Nazi who forged "Home, sweet home" : George A. Van Nosdall -- Lord Byron's bastard son : Major George Byron -- The man who foxed Woodrow Wilson : S. Millington Miller -- He could sign any name : Arthur Sutton -- History's most brazen faker : Clifford Irving -- The poet who forged Robert Frost : Thomas McNamara -- He got fooled by his own forgery : Owen D. Young -- Some scribbling scalawags -- Frivolous fakes -- How to unmask a forger : The Osterman file -- Bolixing up history : the menace of the forger -- Thirteen rules for spotting forgeries -- The forger who murdered his clients : Mark Hofmann.
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Includes index.
Contents: Preface: How to outwit the modern forger -- Twelve forgers of Honest Abe -- The nine bibles of Stonewall Jackson : Thomas Chancellor -- George Washington to order : Robert Spring -- The dapper Baron of fakedom : Charles Weisberg -- The financier who turned forger : Henry Woodhouse -- He forged his father's poems : Eugene Field II -- Wizard of the pen : Joseph Cosey -- The scion of a pirate : John Lafitte -- The Nazi who forged "Home, sweet home" : George A. Van Nosdall -- Lord Byron's bastard son : Major George Byron -- The man who foxed Woodrow Wilson : S. Millington Miller -- He could sign any name : Arthur Sutton -- History's most brazen faker : Clifford Irving -- The poet who forged Robert Frost : Thomas McNamara -- He got fooled by his own forgery : Owen D. Young -- Some scribbling scalawags -- Frivolous fakes -- How to unmask a forger : The Osterman file -- Bolixing up history : the menace of the forger -- Thirteen rules for spotting forgeries -- The forger who murdered his clients : Mark Hofmann.
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