Bunk : the rise of hoaxes, humbug, plagiarists, phonies, post-facts and fake news (Record no. 49282)
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| fixed length control field | 03370 a2200169 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781555977917 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 001.95 |
| Item number | YOU |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Young, Kevin |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Bunk : the rise of hoaxes, humbug, plagiarists, phonies, post-facts and fake news |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Minnesota |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Graywolf Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2017 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | x,560,iip. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Contents <br/>Book one. A history of the hoax <br/> I. The American museum: on the madness of crowds <br/>1. The age of imposture 7<br/>Humbug ; P.T. Barnum ; Matthias the prophet ; The moon hoax ; Poe ; Tales --<br/>2. The freaks of Dame Fortune : 27<br/>Joice Heth ; The mummy ; The mammy ; What is it? ; The Circassian beauty --<br/>3. Splitfoot : Spiritualism 45<br/>William H. Mumler ; The Fox sisters ; Spirit photography ; Heaven tourism ; The Cottingley fairy hoax ; Arthur Conan Doyle --<br/>4. Bearded ladies 63<br/> The Lincoln letters ; The "Dreadnought" hoax ; George Psalmanazar ; Girl wonders ; Opal Whiteley ; Joan Lowell ; Travel liars --<br/>II. Neverland: on race & other popular delusions : <br/>5. Cowboys & aliens 95<br/> Pornographies ; Imaginary Indians ; Grey Owl ; Nasdijj --<br/>6. Blood nation : 117<br/>Memoir ; James Frey ; Margaret B. Jones ; Little Tree ; Captivity ; Poetic license --<br/>7. Lost boys 139<br/> Faction ; Forbidden love ; Three cups of tea ; Gay girl in Damascus ; Mutant message down under --<br/>8. The time machine 161<br/> Lost races ; Professor Agassiz ; Dr. Moreau ; Degeneration ; Miscegenation ; War of the worlds ; Piltdown man ; The Cardiff giant ; The Tasaday --<br/>III. Mysteria: a sideshow <br/>9. The heart is deceitful 189<br/> JT LeRoy ; Lance Armstrong ; Laura Albert ; Sybil ; Anthony Godby Johnson ; Hysteria --<br/>10. Eve Black 211<br/>Eve White ; South Virginia ; Avatar ; Millennialism --<br/>Book two. The hoaxing of history<br/> : IV. The vampire's mirror: of imposture, forgery & monsters <br/>11 Butterfly books 233<br/> Frankensteins ; Frederic Prokosch ; Lily ; Thomas Wise ; Major Byron ; Voices --<br/>12 Spruce Goose 253<br/> The Hitler diaries ; The autobiography of Howard Hughes ; Can you ever forgive me? ; Fake! ; Elmyr --<br/>13 Bakelite 271<br/> Han Van Meegeren ; The Hitler diaries ; Jerzy Kosinski --<br/>14 The vampire's wife 285<br/>The painted bird ; Binjamin Wilkomirski ; Laura Grabowski ; Autofiction --<br/>V. Hack heaven: of the journalist & liar <br/>15 Glass ceilings 305<br/> The new narrative ; Ravi Desai ; The New Republic ; Ern Malley ; Ruth Shalit ; Stephen Glass ; The journalist & the murderer --<br/>16 The gingerbread man 327<br/> Taxis & the meaning of work ; Kae Bang --<br/>17 In bad blood 343<br/>Susan Smith ; Brutal imagination ; The Washington Post ; Jimmy's world ; Ben's world ; Volunteer slavery --<br/>18 Burning down 359<br/> The New York Times ; Jayson Blair ; Michael Finkel ; The truth --<br/>VI. Unoriginal sin: on plagiary, murder, bad poetry & other crimes : <br/>19. Blacker than thou 381<br/> Rachel Dolezal --<br/>20. Professor Plum 391<br/> Plagiary ; Clark Rockefeller ; Gatsby --<br/>21 Ghostbusters 397<br/> Kaavya Viswanathan ; Opal Mehta ; Adam Wheeler ; William-Henry Ireland --<br/>22 Michael Brown's body 411<br/> Trumpism ; The ecstasy of influence ; Conceptual poetry ; Lynching ; Christian Ward ; Brad Vice --<br/>Coda : The age of euphemism 431<br/><br/> |
| 600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 60237 |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | USA |
| 891 ## - Topic | |
| Topic | General |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | General | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 24/10/2018 | amazon.in | 1665.00 | 2 | 1 | 001.95 YOU | 019350 | 24/12/2018 | 30/11/2018 | 1665.00 | 04/05/2018 | Book |