Author: Charles Bertram Black
Publisher:
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Author: C. B. Black
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Category : Switzerland
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: Findlay Muirhead
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Category : Chamonix-Mont-Blanc (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 760

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Author: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Category : Switzerland
Languages : en
Pages : 868

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Author: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Publisher: Leipzig, K. Baedeker; New York, C. Scribner's sons
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 1010

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Author: Thomas Cook (Firm)
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Category : Lakes
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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Author: Isabella Mitchell Cooper
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1302

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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 992

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Author: Paul Willetts
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0451495837
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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The spellbinding tale of hustler Edgar Laplante—the king of Jazz Age con artists—who becomes the victim of his own dangerous game. Edgar Laplante was a smalltime grifter, an erstwhile vaudeville performer, and an unabashed charmer. But after years of playing thankless gigs and traveling with medicine shows, he decided to undertake the most demanding and bravura performance of his life. In the fall of 1917, Laplante reinvented himself as Chief White Elk: war hero, sports star, civil rights campaigner, Cherokee nation leader—and total fraud. Under the pretenses of raising money for struggling Native American reservations, Laplante dressed in buckskins and a feathered headdress and traveled throughout the American West, narrowly escaping exposure and arrest each time he left town. When the heat became too much, he embarked upon a lucrative continent-hopping tour that attracted even more enormous crowds, his cons growing in proportion to the adulation of his audience. As he moved through Europe, he spied his biggest mark on the Riviera: a prodigiously rich Hungarian countess, who was instantly smitten with the con man. The countess bankrolled a lavish trip through Italy that made Laplante a darling of the Mussolini regime and a worldwide celebrity, soaring to unimaginable heights on the wings of his lies. But then, at the pinnacle of his improbable success, Laplante’s overreaching threatened to destroy him… In King Con, Paul Willetts brings this previously untold story to life in all its surprising absurdity, showing us how our tremendous capacity for belief and our longstanding obsession with celebrity can make fools of us all—and proving that sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

Author: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781314469332
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 748

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.