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ISBN/UID: 9780810127036
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 27 June 2011
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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 ...
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360 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780810127036
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 27 June 2011
Description
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 ...
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