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Hoax - Hitler's Diaries, Lincoln's Assassins, and Other Famous Frauds (Paperback)
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Hoax - Hitler's Diaries, Lincoln's Assassins, and Other Famous Frauds (Paperback)
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Loot Price R526
Discovery Miles 5 260
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Did a collector with a knack for making sensational discoveries
really find the first document ever printed in America? Did Adolf
Hitler actually pen a revealing multivolume set of diaries? Has
Jesus of Nazareth's burial cloth survived the ages? Can the
shocking true account of Abraham Lincoln's assassination be found
in lost pages from his murderer's diary? Napoleon famously observed
that "history is a set of lies agreed upon," and Edward Steers Jr.
investigates six of the most amazing frauds ever to gain wide
acceptance in this engrossing book. Hoax examines the legitimacy of
the Shroud of Turin, perhaps the most hotly debated relic in all of
Christianity, and the discovery of fossils confirming humanity's
"missing link," the Piltdown Man. Steers also discusses two
remarkable forgeries, the Hitler diaries and the "Oath of a
Freeman," and famous conspiracy theories alleging that Franklin D.
Roosevelt had prior knowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor and
that the details of Lincoln's assassination are recorded in missing
pages from John Wilkes Booth's journal. The controversies that
Steers presents show that there are two major factors involved in
the success of a hoax or forgery - greed and the desire to believe.
Though all of the counterfeits and conspiracies featured in Hoax
have been scientifically debunked, some remain fixed in many
people's minds as truth. As Steers points out, the success of these
frauds highlights a disturbing fact: if true history fails to
entertain the public, it is more likely to be ignored or forgotten.
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