Fakes, Frauds & Phonies by James CornellMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
This feels almost like a "Ripley's Believe It or Not!": whimsical cartoon and amazing fact. These illustration are more accompanied by a two- or three-page essay than a caption, but the content is rather thin landing somewhere between Ripley's and "Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story". Having so many condensed into a small book and reading them briskly in a single sitting evokes the notion that a successful hoax is relatively easy to perpetrate on a wide audience and even experts so long as it first into what they believe, or wish to believe.
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