I am looking for a book I got in a school book order around 1978-1983, either Scholastic or the other one (Troll, was it?) It was a collection of short accounts of historical hoaxes, like the Piltdown Man, the Cardiff Giant, the War of the Worlds radio broadcast, the New York Sun reports of life on the moon — I think it even had Howard Hughes’s autobiography. I have searched library catalogs and Ebay for “Hoaxes and Frauds,” but I see a book that is far too recent for me to have bought it in elementary school.
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I think you’re looking for this one: Fakes frauds & phonies : famous hoaxes that fooled the world. James Cornell. Scholastic 1973
It has 39 stories including the Piltdown Man, Cardiff Giant and the War of the worlds boradcast.
Thanks! I’ll check it out.
Possibly Frauds, Hoaxes and Swindles by Daniel Cohen? It was published in 1979.
The only other one I know of is Fakes, Frauds and Phonies by James Cornell published in 1973.