viii, 278 pages : 24 cm

ISBN 0517540762 LCCN 8013516

"A Herbert Michelman book."

Includes index

Twelve forgers of Honest Abe -- The nine bibles of Stonewall Jackson : Thomas Chancellor -- George Washington to order : Robert Spring -- The dapper Baron of fakedom : Charles Weisberg -- The financier who turned forger : Henry Woodhouse -- He forged his father's poems : Eugene Field II -- Wizard of the pen : Joseph Cosey -- The scion of a pirate : John Lafitte -- The Nazi who forged "Home, sweet home" : George A. Van Nosdall -- Lord Byron's bastard son : Major George Byron -- The man who foxed Woodrow Wilson : S. Millington Miller -- He could sign any name : Arthur Sutton -- History's most brazen faker : Clifford Irving -- The poet who forged Robert Frost : Thomas McNamara -- He got fooled by his own forgery : Owen D. Young -- Some scribbling scalawags -- Frivolous fakes -- How to unmask a forger : The Osterman file -- Bolixing up history : the menace of the forger -- Thirteen rules for spotting forgeries

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