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The Powell Papers: A Confidence Man Amok Among the Anglo-American Literati
The Powell Papers A Confidence Man Amok Among the AngloAmerican Literati
Author: Hershel Parker
In 1849?months before the term ?confidence man? was coined to identify a New York crook?Thomas Powell (1809?1887), a spherical, monocled, English poetaster, dramatist, journalist, embezzler, and forger, landed in Manhattan. Powell in London had capped a career of grand theft and literary peccadilloes by feigning a suicide attempt and having hims...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780810127036
ISBN-10: 0810127032
Publication Date: 6/27/2011
Pages: 360
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Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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