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9781564784544
Set on a New Orleans bound riverboat, 'The Confidence Man' exposes the fraudulent optimism of so many American idols and idealists - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and P.T. Barnum, in particular - and draws a dark vision of a country being swallowed by its illusions of progress.Melville, Herman is the author of 'Confidence-Man His Masquerade', published 2007 under ISBN 9781564784544 and ISBN 1564784541.
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