Fooled You!: Fakes and Hoaxes Through the Years
A Childrens, Juvenile, Nonfiction book. Edgar Allan Poe sold fiction as fact. A farmer buried a stone giant in his...
Hoaxes are meant to fool the world—and some people fall for them. Would you?Crop circles. Aliens on earth. Fairies caught on film. Giant cats. What do these phenomena have in common? They are all hoaxes. Elaine Pascoe presents well-researched chapters on nearly a dozen infamous hoaxes—from the 1800s to the present—exploring the stories behind them (how they came to be as well as who instigated them) and pondering why people were so easily fooled. These tantalizing accounts hold tremendous appeal for all ages and are as much about the craftiness of perpetrators as about the gullibility of believers. Would you have been fooled? You'll just have to read Fooled You! to find out.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 96 pages
- ISBN: 9780805075281 / 805075283
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It's a book for kids. Short and quick stories. Paperback edition of the 2005 book on impostors and their tricks, in eleven chapters, from the early 19th century up to 2001. Clear, descriptive writing with whimsical silly cartoons. A fun recreational romp through the better-known cons of the last century and a half. Edgar Allan Poe sold fiction as fact. A farmer buried a stone giant in his field. P.T. Barnum was a master of the long con.Fun middle grade non-fiction about some of the greatest hoaxes of all time. The cartoon illustrations are charming, too.
