The Fine Art of Swindling: True Tales of Consummate Roguery Told by A.J. Liebling, Carl Cramer, Meyer Berger, Alan Hynd, P.T. Barnum, Herbert Asbury, and Others

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255 pp. True Tales of Consummate Roguery Told by A.J. Liebling, Carl Cramer, Meyer Berger, Alan Hynd, P.T. Barnum, Herbert Asbury, and Others. Illustrated by Cal Sacks. "The fine a rt of swindling dates back to time immemorial but has improved with the complexities of modern life to which it is so eminently adapted. Indeed, today it is somethings difficult to tell which is the "swindler" and which the "swindlee" until the fraud has been successfully perpetrated. To clarify this issue, Walter B. Gibson has assembled some of the very choicest samplings of this insidious yet intriguing craft, as swindling justifiably may be termed. Factual accounts of these fantastically imaginative enterprises are skilfully related by gifted authors." Show more