The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York

The story of the outrageous newspaper hoax that captivated 19th-century America. In 1835, the 'New York Sun' ran a series of articles describing life on the moon - birds, buffalo, one-horned zebras, and four-foot-tall man-bats. Matthew Goodman relates the story, its origins, its reception, and its influence.Goodman, Matthew is the author of 'The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York' with ISBN 9780465002573 and ISBN 0465002579.