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Pranksters : Making Mischief in the Modern World by McLeod, Kembrew is a true crime available to read on EtoBox.
What is Pranksters : Making Mischief in the Modern World about?
From Benjamin Franklin's newspaper hoax that faked the death of his rival to Abbie Hoffman’s attempt to levitate the Pentagon, pranksters, hoaxers, and con artists have caused confusion, disorder, and laughter in Western society for centuries. Profiling the most notorious mischief makers from the 1600s to the present day, Pranksters explores how “pranks” are part of a long tradition of speaking truth to power and social critique. Invoking such historical and contemporary figures as P.T. Barnum, Jonathan Swift, WITCH, The Yes Men, and Stephen Colbert, Kembrew McLeod shows how staged spectacles that balance the serious and humorous can spark important public conversations. In some instances, tricksters have incited social change (and unfortunate prank blowback) by manipulating various forms of media, from newspapers to YouTube. For example, in the 1960s, self-proclaimed “professional hoaxer” Alan Abel lampooned America’s hypocritical sexual mores by using conservative rhetoric to fool the news media into covering a satirical organization that advocated clothing naked animals. In the 1990s, Sub Pop Records then-receptionist Megan Jasper satirized the commodification of alternative m
Who reads Pranksters : Making Mischief in the Modern World?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- McLeod, Kembrew
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780814764367
- Category
- true crime
- Subjects
- Computer Science, Literary Fiction, True Crime
- Rating
- 3.52 / 5 (35 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13