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Empire makes the Top 100 in Canada and wins a Chicago book award
>>>Canada's Globe and Mail and National Post newspapers have selected Empire of Deception as one of the Top 100 books of the year.
>>> And the strange-but-true tale of 1920s swindler Leo Koretz has won the Chicago Writers Association award for best non-fiction book of 2015. Details at: http://www.chicagowrites.org/4-books-... Read more of this blog post »
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A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue:
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"Dean Jobb can place his characters into context like no one I know. No detail of time and place is overlooked. In this case, like a fine jewel into a platinum setting. And now - as a bonus - I know how to tell a real pearl from an artificial one. Gre"
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“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
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“Nothing was as it seemed in Leo Koretz’s make-believe world of mysterious syndicates and Panamanian oil fields. Accounts written long after his death added fresh layers of myth and distortion, but I was determined to learn the truth about a larger-than-life figure who rarely, if ever, told the truth. The real story of the man who pioneered and mastered the Ponzi scheme, is so gripping – and, at times, so incredible – that it needs no embellishment. And it’s a story woven into the fabric of the corrupt politics and gang warfare that plagued Chicago in the 1920s.”
― Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
― Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
“Con men need a battery of traits to win their victims’ trust and lighten their wallets. Chicago’s Leo Koretz had them all. They must be good actors and Leo, acting the part of a savvy financier who hobnobbed with a mysterious syndicate of millionaires, delivered a magnificent performance. They must be likeable, and everyone liked and trusted the generous, wisecracking, charming Leo. He could have been a top-flight lawyer, a business leader, or perhaps a powerful politician. He chose, instead, to become a master of promoting phony stocks.”
― Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
― Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
“There is something quintessentially American about the confidence man, who reinvents himself to each new victim in the same way that America’s early settlers reinvented themselves in a new land .... America was built on dreams and promises, and dreams and promises are what a con man sells.”
― Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
― Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
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“You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture.
You've got to become them."
(Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)”
― John Adams
You've got to become them."
(Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)”
― John Adams
“Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell in love with the city, the people I encountered, and above all the lake and its moods, which shift so readily from season to season, day to day, even hour to hour.”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City
“You must carry along with you a lively imagination and plenty of romance in your soul. Some of the most wonderful things in the world will seem dull and drab unless you view them in the proper light.”
― A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley
― A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley
“An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.”
― Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
― Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
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