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Index
Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Book One A History of the Hoax
One: The American Museum: On the Madness of Crowds
Chapter 1 The Age of Imposture
Chapter 2 The Freaks of Dame Fortune
Chapter 3 Splitfoot
Chapter 4 Bearded Ladies
Two: Neverland: On Race & other Popular Delusions
Chapter 5 Cowboys & Aliens
Chapter 6 Blood Nation
Chapter 7 Lost Boys
Chapter 8 The Time Machine
Three: Mysteria: A Sideshow
Chapter 9 The Heart is Deceitful
Chapter 10 Eve Black
Book Two The Hoaxing of History
Four: The Vampire’s Mirror: Of Imposture, Forgery & Monsters
Chapter 11 Butterfly Books
Chapter 12 Spruce Goose
Chapter 13 Bakelite
Chapter 14 The Vampire’s Wife
Five: Hack Heaven: Of the Journalist & the Liar
Chapter 15 Glass Ceilings
Chapter 16 The Gingerbread Man
Chapter 17 In Bad Blood
Chapter 18 Burning Down
Six: Unoriginal Sin: On Plagiary, Murder, Bad Poetry & other Crimes
Chapter 19 Blacker than Thou
Chapter 20 Professor Plum
Chapter 21 Ghostbusters
Chapter 22 Michael Brown’s Body
Coda The Age of Euphemism
Acknowledgments
Notes
Annotated Bibliography
Illustration Credits
About the Author
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