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The Sun and the moon : the remarkable true account of hoaxers, showmen, dueling journalists, and lunar man-bats in nineteenth-century New York / Matthew Goodman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodman, Matthew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Book Committee.
- History.
- Fraud in science.
- Moon--Miscellanea.
- Moon.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Fraud in science--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
- Journalism--Corrupt practices.
- Journalism.
- Day, Benjamin Henry, 1810-1889.
- Day, Benjamin Henry.
- Sun (New York, N.Y. : 1833).
- New York (N.Y.)--History--19th century.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Genre:
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 350 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, [2008]
- Contents:
- Prologue: The Man on the Moon 1
- Part 1 The Sun
- 1 Benjamin Day's Whistling Boy 17
- 2 The News of the City 33
- 3 Bearer of the Falcon Crest 49
- 4 The Atrocious Impositions of Matthias 65
- 5 "The Evil Spirit of the Times" 83
- 6 The Prince of Ivy Island 97
- 7 Strange Attractions 115
- Part 2 The Moon
- 8 Celestial Discoveries 131
- 9 A Passage to the Moon 147
- 10 "If This Account Is True, It Is Most Enormously Wonderful" 165
- 11 The Picturesque Beauty of the Moon 185
- 12 "The Astronomical Hoax Explained" 199
- 13 Moonshine 217
- 14 Monck Mason's Flying Machine 233
- 15 "Joice Heth Is Not Dead" 251
- 16 The Best Self-Hoaxed Man in New York 265
- Epilogue: That Tyranny Shall Be No Longer 283.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-334) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780465002573
- 0465002579
- OCLC:
- 176894745
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