Here are 14 books about con artists to feed your obsession with scam stories 📚
is the essential nonfiction book. Originally published in 1940,is David W. Maurer’s wide-ranging study of grifters—their methods, their slang, and their motives. Maurer was a linguist by trade, so this is definitely the one to read if you’re looking to expand your vocabulary of old-timey words for swindling.Rather than focus on just one huckster,takes a look at a whole slew of con artists, all of them women.
is no exception. Pope Brock tells the story of John R. Brinkley, an American con man who made his fortune selling a quack cure for male impotence that involved goat testicles. That’s just the beginning, though—by 1930, Brinkley had so effectively established himself as a pillar of the community that he almost got elected governor of Kansas.
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