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Book Synopsis The Truth about Uri Geller by : James Randi
Download or read book The Truth about Uri Geller written by James Randi and published by Pyr. This book was released on 1982 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professional magician exposes mystics, mediums, psychic surgeons, and others who claim to possess supernatural or paranormal powers, demonstrating how their feats are little more than well-planned tricks that any competent magician can duplicate.
Download or read book Flim-Flam Man written by Jennifer Vogel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major motion picture Flag Day starring Sean Penn and his daughter Dylan Penn is based on this father-daughter story of a charming criminal—told by the daughter who loved him. One frosty winter morning in 1995, Jennifer Vogel opened the newspaper and read that her father had gone on the run. John Vogel, fifty-two, had been arrested for single-handedly counterfeiting nearly $20 million in U.S. currency—the fourth-largest sum ever seized by federal agents—and then released pending trial. Though Jennifer hadn't spoken to her father in more than four years, the police suspected he might turn up at her Minneapolis apartment. She examined the shadows outside her building, thought she spotted him at the grocery store and the bus stop. He had simply vanished. Framed around the six months her father eluded authorities, Jennifer's memoir documents the police chase—stakeouts, lie detector tests, even a segment on Unsolved Mysteries—and vividly chronicles her tumultuous childhood while examining her father's legacy. A lifelong criminal who robbed banks, burned down buildings, scammed investors, and even plotted murder, John Vogel was also a hapless dreamer who wrote a novel, baked lemon meringue pies, and took his ten-year-old daughter to see Rocky in an empty theater on Christmas Eve. When it came time to pass his counterfeit bills, he spent them at Wal-Mart for political reasons. Culling from memories, photo albums, public documents, and interviews with the handful of people who knew the real John Vogel, this is an intimate and intensely moving psychological portrait of a charismatic, larger-than-life figure—as told by the daughter who nearly followed in his footsteps.
Book Synopsis Heritage and Hate by : Stephen M. Monroe
Download or read book Heritage and Hate written by Stephen M. Monroe and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores how Ole Miss and other Southern universities presently contend with an inherited panoply of Southern words and symbols and "Old South" traditions, everything that publicly defines these communities--from anthems to buildings to flags to monuments to mascots"--
Book Synopsis The Flim-Flam Fairies by : Alan Katz
Download or read book The Flim-Flam Fairies written by Alan Katz and published by Running Press. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Royal Stinkfest!” —Fairy Queen of Snots “What a gas!” —Fairy O. Hara, author of Gone Is the Wind “This book makes great reading—and even better toilet paper!” —I.C. Butts, President of S.T.I.N.K. (Society to Inform Nice Kids) Say the word “fairies” and it conjures up images of little winged beings made of gossamer and light, exquisitely dressed in shimmering gowns or twirly, little bejeweled skating costumes. Well, you haven't met The Flim-Flam Fairies. Be prepared for the crazy antics of the Fart Fairy, Snot Fairy, Dirty Underwear Fairy, as well as a few other less-than-enchanting fairies as they persuade their way into and out of children's lives in attempts to take over the Tooth Fairy's under-the-pillow enterprise. A silly story that will have the kids howling into their pillows with laughter!
Download or read book Flim-flam Man written by Jennifer Vogel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intense psychological portrait of a man--a doting father, a scheming philanderer, a charming scammer, counterfeiter, and would-be killer--is recorded by the daughter who loved him.
Download or read book Flim Flam written by Ronald L. Clark and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Wilhelm Thaddeus Quinton, AKA Spoon, the most likeable person you would ever want to meet. How could you not like a guy who lives by the mantra a six-pack a day keeps mediocrity away and draws a crowd of adoring people by just walking into a room? When the Spoon Man comes upon the scene it's like a raucous parade beginning to form-up with plenty of excitement and adventure awaiting all who only need to throw normal caution to the wind and join-up. But there is another side to the Spoon Man, he is a Master Gamer and the Game Meister has his sights set on playing in the biggest game of all, Politics. And when you are a people magnet like the Spoon Man, you are a natural born Politician. But wait, there's more When Wilhelm Thaddeus Quinton plays in a game he is always a winner because winners won't play in a game they can't win, i.e., winners always rig the game so they cannot lose and if they can't rig the game they will not play. Rigging the game of Politics is always done the old fashioned way with the time honored practice of Flim Flam and the Spoon Man is an accomplished and enlightened Flimflammer par excellence. With patience and cold calculation Quinton gathers his Lieutenants and supporters about him as he shows us all how to play the game of Politics. And never ever forget, it's not really about Politics, it's always and forever about the game and winning Ronald L Clark was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and is the father of four children. Most all of his professional years have been involved in design engineering for the United States Navy. He is the holder of a number of patents and was the Science and Technology leader at the Naval Air Warfare Center that featured a technical career that highlights System Engineering as the most rewarding of his technical endeavors. He is an avid sailor and still enjoys hitting the links when the sun is shining brightly.
Download or read book Flim Flam written by Mark Bourrie and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flim Flam explores the world of Canadian white-collar crime, a place inhabited by hustlers, wild gamblers, and crazy dreamers. It takes the reader to the Vancouver Stock Exchange, where dream salesmen have peddled wild stories of easy money, through the "moose pasture" scams of northern Canada, to the con artists who have been drawn to Toronto's financial district. Along the way, you'll meet crooked politicians, a young con man who confessed to a church congregation after he was "born again," disbarred lawyers, and the creator of a huge paper fortune who was left with nothing but a wolfskin coat when his real estate empire fell apart. Greed is a powerful motivator that has taken some Canadians down strange roads. Some have ended up pocketing millions, but many more of Canada's con artists have self-destructed, taking with them the fortunes of the people they bilked. In the end, they've usually fooled themselves, too. Flim Flam shows that Canadians aren't nearly as dull as we'd like to believe. When it comes to conning each other, we have some of the most colourful and interesting hucksters in the world. This book contains stories from all regions of the country. It will appeal to business and true-crime readers, as well as people who are students of human nature.
Book Synopsis The Flim-Flam City by : Elvin C. Bell
Download or read book The Flim-Flam City written by Elvin C. Bell and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sip and flip thriller. The reader will meet elected officials who rule their custom-made government through murder, corruption and cover-up. The strong determination of a victim's widow to see justice done takes matters into her own hands until, finally, the Federal Strike Force shows up.. But there are new, dangerous obstacles to face before law and order is restored.
Download or read book Film Flam written by Larry McMurtry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted screenwriter himself, Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry knows his Hollywood. In Film Flam, he takes a funny, original, and penetrating look at the movie industry and gives us the truth about the moguls, fads, flops, and box-office hits. With successful movies and television miniseries made from several of his novels -- Terms of Endearment, The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove, and Hud -- McMurtry writes with an outsider's irony of the industry and an insider's experience. In these essays he illuminates the plight of the screenwriter, cuts a clean, often hilarious path through the excesses of film reviewing, and takes on some of the worst trends in the industry: the decline of the Western, the disappearance of love in the movies, and the quality of the stars themselves. From his recollections of the day Hollywood entered McMurtry's own life as he ate meat loaf in Fort Worth to the pleasures he found in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Film Flam is one of the best books ever written about Hollywood.
Book Synopsis Mathematical Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam by : Edward Barbeau
Download or read book Mathematical Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam written by Edward Barbeau and published by MAA. This book was released on 2000-06-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through hard experience mathematicians have learned to subject even the most 'evident' assertions to rigorous scrutiny, as intuition can often be misleading. This book collects and analyses a mass of such errors, drawn from the work of students, textbooks, and the media, as well as from professional mathematicians themselves.
Book Synopsis The Flimflam Man by : Darleen Bailey Beard
Download or read book The Flimflam Man written by Darleen Bailey Beard and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2003-09-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a scorching July day in 1950, a fabulous fat man drives into Wetumka, Oklahoma. F. Bam Morrison is selling tickets to Bohn's United Circus Shows, and the townspeople are buying--all, that is, except ol' man Swank, who says F. Bam Morrison is a two-faced weasel. Smitten with Morrison, ten-year-old Bobbie Jo Hailey--and mean Clara Jean Knox, whom she befriends--unwittingly joins the effort to bamboozle Wetumka. When Bobbie Jo realizes her mistake, Morrison is on his way out of town, leaving her disappointed but intact--and greatly enriched by her relationship with the flimflam man. Lovingly illustrated by Eileen Christelow, Darleen Bailey Beard's delightful story is based on a real episode in Wetumka's history, still celebrated annually as Sucker Day!
Download or read book Flim Flam! written by James Randi and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charlatan written by Pope Brock and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary, NUTS!. “An extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all time...entrancing” –USA Today In 1917, John R. Brinkley–America’s most brazen con man–introduced an outlandish surgical method for restoring fading male virility. It was all nonsense, but thousands of eager customers quickly made “Dr.” Brinkley one of America’s richest men–and a national celebrity. The great quack buster Morris Fishbein vowed to put the country’ s “most daring and dangerous” charlatan out of business, yet each effort seemed only to spur Brinkley to new heights of ingenuity, and the worlds of advertising, broadcasting, and politics soon proved to be equally fertile grounds for his potent brand of flimflam. Culminating in a decisive courtroom confrontation, Charlatan is a marvelous portrait of a boundlessly audacious rogue on the loose in an America ripe for the bamboozling.
Book Synopsis Flim Flam Man by : M Allen Henderson
Download or read book Flim Flam Man written by M Allen Henderson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brace yourself for a crash course in the underbelly of deception! "Flim-Flam Man: How Con Games Work" is your passport to a world where fortunes are made and lost in the blink of an eye. This book isn't just about cons, it's a thrilling exposé, a roadmap to navigate the labyrinthine schemes of the criminal mind. Imagine being led down a dark alley, promised a chance at untold riches. It's all a carefully crafted illusion, and "Flim-Flam Man" rips the mask off, revealing the psychology behind the con. You'll learn how smooth-talking hustlers exploit your deepest desires and blind spots, turning everyday objects into weapons of deceit. But this book isn't just about understanding the enemy. It equips you with the knowledge to fight back. From classic street scams like the "shell game" to elaborate financial swindles, "Flim-Flam Man" dissects each con, exposing its inner workings like a magician revealing their secrets. With this knowledge, you become more than just a potential victim; you become a master of awareness, able to spot the telltale signs of deception before you fall prey to their tricks. So, are you ready to step into the shadows and learn the secrets of the con? "Flim-Flam Man: How Con Games Work" isn't just a book, it's a thrilling adventure into the world of deception, an empowering experience that equips you with the knowledge to protect yourself and outsmart the flim-flam artists lurking in the world around you.
Book Synopsis Insane Clown President by : Matt Taibbi
Download or read book Insane Clown President written by Matt Taibbi and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy’s uncertain future, by the country’s most perceptive and fearless political journalist. In twenty-five pieces from Rolling Stone—plus two original essays—Matt Taibbi tells the story of Western civilization’s very own train wreck, from its tragicomic beginnings to its apocalyptic conclusion. Years before the clown car of candidates was fully loaded, Taibbi grasped the essential themes of the story: the power of spectacle over substance, or even truth; the absence of a shared reality; the nihilistic rebellion of the white working class; the death of the political establishment; and the emergence of a new, explicit form of white nationalism that would destroy what was left of the Kingian dream of a successful pluralistic society. Taibbi captures, with dead-on, real-time analysis, the failures of the right and the left, from the thwarted Bernie Sanders insurgency to the flawed and aimless Hillary Clinton campaign; the rise of the “dangerously bright” alt-right with its wall-loving identity politics and its rapturous view of the “Racial Holy War” to come; and the giant fail of a flailing, reactive political media that fed a ravenous news cycle not with reporting on political ideology, but with undigested propaganda served straight from the campaign bubble. At the center of it all stands Donald J. Trump, leading a historic revolt against his own party, “bloviating and farting his way” through the campaign, “saying outrageous things, acting like Hitler one minute and Andrew Dice Clay the next.” For Taibbi, the stunning rise of Trump marks the apotheosis of the new postfactual movement. Taibbi frames the reporting with original essays that explore the seismic shift in how we perceive our national institutions, the democratic process, and the future of the country. Insane Clown President is not just a postmortem on the collapse and failure of American democracy. It offers the riveting, surreal, unique, and essential experience of seeing the future in hindsight. “Scathing . . . What keeps the pages turning in this so freshly familiar story line is the vivid observation and original turns of phrase.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Book Synopsis Flim Flam Sham by : Virginia Leith Glenn
Download or read book Flim Flam Sham written by Virginia Leith Glenn and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-27 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely Pandemic parody done in the style of Dr. Seuss. Flim Flam Sham- addresses relevant issues raised by the Covid19 Pandemic. Now more than ever personal liberty, free speech and the entire way pharmaceuticals are developed is being called into question. Have the lines between government and industry been blurred by individual financial gain at the expense of public safety? People are lining up to take vaccines which are not FDA approved and only have an emergency use provision. Have we just created the largest vaccine trial in history? If America is to remain a light of Freedom, ingenuity and scientific thought to the rest of the world we will need to address these issues and sift out what is real science and what is outdated and hype. We all want a safer world; pharmaceutical companies need to be held accountable for their products and we need to have a say in our freedoms.
Book Synopsis The Conscience of a Liberal by : Paul Krugman
Download or read book The Conscience of a Liberal written by Paul Krugman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-01-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most consistent and courageous—and unapologetic—liberal partisan in American journalism." —Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books In this "clear, provocative" (Boston Globe) New York Times bestseller, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, examines the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age and the 1920s to the unraveling of that achievement and the reemergence of immense economic and political inequality since the 1970s. Seeking to understand both what happened to middle-class America and what it will take to achieve a "new New Deal," Krugman has created his finest book to date, a "stimulating manifesto" offering "a compelling historical defense of liberalism and a clarion call for Americans to retake control of their economic destiny" (Publishers Weekly). "As Democrats seek a rationale not merely for returning to power, but for fundamentally changing—or changing back—the relationship between America's government and its citizens, Mr. Krugman's arguments will prove vital in the months and years ahead." —Peter Beinart, New York Times
