A CENTURY OF SWINDLES: Ponzi Schemes, Con Men, and Fraudsters

From the Gilded Age through WWII, America was rife with ne'er do wells on a never-ending search for the next big score. The scammers in this volume range from the undeniably unscrupulous to the ill and ill-advised. These are tales of the rise and fall of some of America's greatest swindlers. Well illus.