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100 1  Young, Kevin,|d1970-|eauthor. 
245 10 Bunk :|bthe rise of hoaxes, humbug, plagiarists, phonies, 
       post-facts, and fake news /|cKevin Young. 
264  1 Minneapolis, Minnesota :|bGreywolf Press,|c2017. 
300    560 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
520    Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young traces the 
       history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon - 
       the legacy of P.T. Barnum's 'humbug' culminating with the 
       currency of Donald J. Trump's 'fake news'. Disturbingly, 
       Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and 
       suspicion, with race being the most insidious American 
       hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by 
       displaying figures like joice heth, a black woman whome he
       pretended was the 161 year old nursemaid to George 
       Washington, and 'What is It', an African American man 
       Barnum professed was a newly discovered missing link in 
       evolution. 
650  0 Deception. 
650  0 Hoaxes. 
650  0 Fraud. 
650  0 Truthfulness and falsehood. 
650  0 Impersonation.