Barbara R. (Crop4Fun) reviewed on 1/31/2006 + 1217 more book reviews

Has 52 chapters, each one devoted to a different famous scandal ranging over 2 centuries and the entire world including:
The British Queen Tried for Adultery;
Henry Ward Beecher - The Preacher and the Adoring Disciples
Carlos Castaneda - The Don Juan Hoax;
The Dreyfus Affair - The Plitical Scandal that shook France;
William Ireland - The Great Shakespeare Forgery
Senator Edward Kennedy - Mary Jo Kopechne's Death on Chappaquiddick Island;
Mrs. Wallis Simpson - THe Royal Abdication Crisis;
Thomas J. Wise - The "First Editions" Scandal;
Victoria and John Brown - The Widow of Windsor and the Scottish Ghillie;
The Ohio Gang that hijacked America;
The Russian Plagiarism scandal;
The "sex-for-sale" telegraph boys;
The surprising truth about the Fatty Arbuckle story - which is not what legend says it is.
The scandal filled love life of H.G. Wells;
The Louisiana scandal;
The Japanese Bribary System;
The sex life of Bertrand Russell;
and many more.

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