Hoaxes

by Curtis Daniel MacDougall

Hardcover, FINE, brown cloth boards hand bound by Dr. McLay Millter, 338 pp. B & W illustrations. Updated edition with mention of more than 25 entirely new incidents has been added; discovery of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486204650
• ISBN13: 9780486204659
• Release Date: January 1958
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Still The Best Source

Though written ages ago, MacDougall's book on hoaxes is the best place to go to get a thoruough grounding in the colorful history of the hoax. As a journalism prof at the Medill School at Northwestern, he and his students collected everything they could for decades, and there are hundreds of examples here-- it makes for amusing reading. My favorite is Pavel Jordanovitch and his new art "ism," Disumbrationism. Oy! People used to be so gullible! (Used to be?? Check the latest at Snopes.com to see the same old hoaxes still fooling millions every year.) So: if you're looking into hoaxes, begin with "Hoaxes."