The Big Con
The Story of the Confidence Man
$37.77
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
20 July 1999
Summary
The classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in Salon called “a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan humor, as sly and rich in atmosphere as anything this side of Mark Twain.”
“Of all the grifters, the confidence man is the aristocrat,” wrote David Maurer, a proposition he definitely proved in The Big Con, one of the most colorful, well-researched, and entertaining works of criminology ever written. A professor of linguistics who…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385495387 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0385495382 |
| Author: | David Maurer, Luc Sante |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 20 July 1999 |
| Weight: | 266g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 134mm x 19mm |
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About The Author
David Maurer
David W. Maurer was a professor of Linguistics at the University of Louisville until his death in 1981. His other books include Whiz Mob and Kentucky Moonshine.
Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, an acclaimed account of New York’s underworld; the memoir Factory of Facts; and Evidence.
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