The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man Science_Gift_Guide A Goodreads Choice Award Nominee

A Goodreads Choice Award Nominee

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The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man Science_Gift_Guide A Goodreads Choice Award NomineeThe 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