Duped! True Stories of the World’s Best Swindlersby Andreas Schroeder, illustrations by Rémy Simard
$12.95
157 pages
Some of history’s most famous swindlers
http://roanokevalleywoman.com/by Roanoke Valley Woman on January 20, 2012
You cannot tell a lie.
Yep, you and young George Washington both learned a long, long time ago that lying was wrong. Not only did it hurt people, but it also got you into trouble. And no matter how much you tried to cover things up, no matter how “white†your little lie was, you always got caught in the end.
And punished.
In the new book “Duped!†by Andreas Schroeder, illustrations by Rémy Simard, you’ll see how some grown-up liars were caught, too. The only difference was that their lies were whoppers!
Without a doubt, as long as there have been people, there have been liars and cheaters. Scamming goes so far back in history that you can almost imagine one caveman trying to cheat another caveman out of his rock. But today’s question is, how do smart people get caught up in dumb scams?
Andreas Schroeder says the reason is sometimes greed. Getting a too-good-to-be-true deal is a big motivator and in this book, he tells the story of some of history’s most famous swindles.
Scams can catch the eye of just one person, or they can affect the whole world. In 1971, for instance, everyone around the globe was abuzz because, supposedly, the Filipino government had “stumbled across†a group of people who were living in caves, just like their Stone-Age ancestors did.
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