Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation

Jobb, Dean

ISBN 10: 1616205350 / ISBN 13: 9781616205355

Edité par Algonquin Books (edition Reprint), 2016

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Synopsis :

In Chicago in the Roaring Twenties, a charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz enticed hundreds of people to invest as much as $30 million in phantom timberland and oil wells in Panama. This tale of a brilliant con man, the Bernie Madoff of his day, is a fascinating account of a criminal and an era, and the methods of swindlers throughout history.

À propos de l?auteur: Dean Jobb is an award-winning author and journalist and a professor at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program. He is the author of eight previous books, including Empire of Deception, which the New York Times Book Review called "intoxicating and impressively researched" and the Chicago Writers Association named the Nonfiction Book of the Year. Jobb has written for major newspapers and magazines, including the Chicago Tribune, Toronto's Globe and Mail, and the Irish Times. He writes a monthly true-crime column, "Stranger Than Fiction," for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. His work as an investigative reporter has been nominated for Canada's National Newspaper and National Magazine awards, and Jobb is a three-time winner of Atlantic Canada's top journalism award.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of...
Éditeur : Algonquin Books (edition Reprint)
Date d'édition : 2016
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Good
Edition : Reprint.