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100 1  Tattersall, Ian,|eauthor. 
245 10 Hoax :|ba history of deception : 5,000 years of fakes, 
       forgeries, and fallacies /|cIan Tattersall and Peter N. 
       Nevraumont. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bBlack Dog & Leventhal, Hachette Book Group,
       |c2018. 
300    xi, 244 pages :|billustrations (chiefly color) ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and 
       index. 
520    "An entertaining collection of the most audacious and 
       underhanded deceptions in the history of mankind, from 
       sacred relics to financial schemes to fake art, music, and
       identities.  World history is littered with tall tales and
       those who have fallen for them. Ian Tattersall, a curator 
       emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, has 
       teamed up with Peter Névraumont to create this anti-
       history of the world, in which Michelangelo fakes a 
       masterpiece; Arctic explorers seek an entrance into a 
       hollow Earth; a Shakespeare tragedy is "rediscovered"; a 
       financial scheme inspires Charles Ponzi; a spirit 
       photographer snaps Abraham Lincoln's ghost; people can 
       survive ingesting only air and sunshine; Edgar Allen Pie 
       is the forefather of fake news; and the first human was 
       not only British but played cricket.  Told chronologically,
       HOAX begins with the first documented announcement of the 
       end of the world from 365 AD and winds its way through 
       controversial tales such as the Loch Ness Monster and the 
       Shroud of Turin, past proven fakes such as the Thomas 
       Jefferson's ancient wine and the Davenport Tablets built 
       by a lost race, and explores bald-faced lies in the worlds
       of art, science, literature, journalism, and finance.  
       World history is littered with tall tales and those who 
       have fallen for them. Ian Tattersall, a curator emeritus 
       at the American Museum of Natural History, has teamed up 
       with Peter Névraumont to create this anti-history of the 
       world, in which Michelangelo fakes a masterpiece; Arctic 
       explorers seek an entrance into a hollow Earth; a 
       Shakespeare tragedy is "rediscovered;" a financial scheme 
       inspires Charles Ponzi; a spirit photographer snaps 
       Abraham Lincoln's ghost; people can survive ingesting only
       air and sunshine; Edgar Allen Poe is the forefather of 
       fake news; and the first human was not only British but 
       played cricket. 
650  0 History|xErrors, inventions, etc.|vAnecdotes. 
650  0 Common fallacies|vAnecdotes. 
650  0 Hoaxes|vAnecdotes. 
650  0 Tall tales|vAnecdotes. 
650  0 Deception|vAnecdotes. 
650  0 Art|xForgeries|vAnecdotes. 
650  0 Folklore|vAnecdotes. 
700 1  Nevraumont, Peter N.,|eauthor.