A Treasury of Deception

Unfortunately I didn't find this book to be nearly as interesting as the title had promised. I found it to be a laundry list of factoids (A LOT of factoids) without deeper and contextual analysis which would have this book much more interesting. I would have preferred that the author focused on fewe......more

Humorous and history very lite.......more

This is a great one for laying on the tank. The title is pretty clear, I think. If this sort of thing fascinates you as it does me (this one now holds a place on my downstairs shelf of All Things Fraudulent), this is a good little compendium.......more

A fun book from the local library. It is all about “liars, misleaders, hoodwinkers and the extraordinary true stories of history’s greatest hoaxes, fakes and frauds.” I already knew about many of the examples, but Farquhar’s engaging style kept me reading. Here is a random sampling. # Conan Doyle’s imme......more

This book was a wild ride. Chapters on rather amusing pranks, then BOOM into Hitler's Big Lie and stories of terrible suffering and death. Then we are on to deceptive spouses, and financial flim flam artists and WHAM into North Korea with its one or two main streets with goods no one can afford and......more