The Powell Papers: A Confidence Man Amok Among the Anglo-American Literati

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In 1849--months before the term "confidence man" was coined to identify a New York crook--Thomas Powell (1809-1887), a spherical, monocled, English poetaster, dramatist, journalist, embezzler, and forger, landed in Manhattan. Powell in London had capped a career of grand theft and literary peccadilloes by feigning a suicide attempt and having himself committed to a madhouse, after which he fled England. He had been an intimate of William Wordsworth,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0810127032

ISBN13:9780810127036

Release Date:June 2011

Publisher:Northwestern University Press

Length:360 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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