{"id":4086,"date":"2007-10-24T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4086"},"modified":"2010-04-20T19:55:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T00:55:42","slug":"book-report-hoaxes-dupes-dodges-other-dastardly-deceptions-by-gordon-stein-and-marie-j-macnee-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/24\/book-report-hoaxes-dupes-dodges-other-dastardly-deceptions-by-gordon-stein-and-marie-j-macnee-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Hoaxes! Dupes, Dodges &#038; Other Dastardly Deceptions by Gordon Stein and Marie J. MacNee (1995)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book is what one would expect.  Culled from a larger work (<i>Encyclopedia of Hoaxes<\/i>), this book presents a Reader&#8217;s Digest kind of sumamry of a selection of hoaxes from history.  It is what it is, which is shorter and more whitespaced than an actual Reader&#8217;s Digest anthology, but worth a couple bits if you can find it cheaply.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know that I gleaned any real new knowledge from this, but it certainly reinforced some trivia I knew.  Well, maybe the story of Dupont&#8217;s painting will make it into a historical essay one day.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0787604801&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is what one would expect. Culled from a larger work (Encyclopedia of Hoaxes), this book presents a Reader&#8217;s Digest kind of sumamry of a selection of hoaxes from history. It is what it is, which is shorter and more whitespaced than an actual Reader&#8217;s Digest anthology, but worth a couple bits if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5949,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086\/revisions\/5949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}