The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum.(Book Review)

From: Journal of Social History | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: Leon, Charles L. Ponce de | Copyright information

The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum. By James W. Cook (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. xv plus 314 pp. $45.00 cloth/$ 19.95 paper).

James W. Cook's book on "artful deceptions" in nineteenth-century American popular culture is not merely fascinating, fluently written, and engaging to read. It sheds light on a number of different subjects and helps us to appreciate the thoroughly interconnected nature of cultural phenomena in what he c...

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