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Longlisted For The National Book Award For Nonfiction “there Kevin Young Goes Again, Giving Us Books We Greatly Need, Cleverly Disguised As Books We Merely Want. Unexpectedly Essential.”—marlon James Award-winning Poet And Critic Kevin Young Tours Us Through A Rogue’s Gallery Of Hoaxers, Plagiarists, Forgers, And Fakers—from The Humbug Of P. T. Barnum And Edgar Allan Poe To The Unrepentant Bunk Of Jt Leroy And Donald J. Trump. Bunk Traces The History Of The Hoax As A Peculiarly American Phenomenon, Examining What Motivates Hucksters And Makes The Rest Of Us So Gullible. Disturbingly, Young Finds That Fakery Is Woven From Stereotype And Suspicion, Race Being The Most Insidious American Hoax Of All. He Chronicles How Barnum Came To Fame By Displaying Figures Like Joice Heth, A Black Woman Whom He Pretended Was The 161-year-old Nursemaid To George Washington, And What Is It?, An African American Man Barnum Professed Was A Newly Discovered Missing Link In Evolution. Bunk Then Turns To The Hoaxing Of History And The Ways That Forgers, Plagiarists, And Journalistic Fakers Invent Backstories And Falsehoods To Sell Us Lies About Themselves And About The World In Our Own Time, From Pretend

Author

Kevin A Young

Publisher

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781555978167

Subjects

Computer Science, Social Science, Philosophy

Rating

3.6 / 5 (121 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14