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The Sun & the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-century New York (Library Edition)
The Sun the Moon The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers Showmen Dueling Journalists and Lunar ManBats in Nineteenthcentury New York - Library Edition Author:Matthew Goodman Told in richly novelistic detail this is the exhilarating narrative history of the noise and creative bustle of nineteenth-century Manhattan and the New York Sun newspaper's fantastic Man on the Moon series, the hoax that convinced the city's inhabitants that life had been found on the moon. With an incredible cast of larger-than life personalit... more »ies and little known New York City history set in the same period as Gangs of New York, this is the story of the birth of our modern newspaper culture.« less