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The Powell Papers: A Confidence Man Amok Among the Anglo-american Literati
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Hardcover
from Northwestern Univ Pr (June 27, 2011)
9780810127036 | details & prices | 343 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $69.95
About: 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.
About: 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.