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Author Cook, James W., 1966- author
Title The arts of deception : playing with fraud in the age of Barnum / James W. Cook.
Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
©2001
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 Yale-NUS College Library RBR  E166 Coo 2001  AVAILABLE
Descrip. xv, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-308) and index.
Contents Introduction: Thinking with Tricks -- 1. The Death and Rebirth of the Automaton Chess-Player -- 2. The Feejee Mermaid and the Market Revolution -- 3. Describing the Nondescript -- 4. Modern Magic -- 5. Queer Art Illusions -- Epilogue: Barnum's Ghosts.
Subject Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Fraud -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Tricksters -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Impostors and imposture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891.
Trompe l'oeil painting -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Magic tricks -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Robots -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 0674004574 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780674004573 (cloth : alk. paper)
0674005910 (paper : alk. paper)
9780674005914 (paper : alk. paper)
YHU3276 WALKER Christine
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