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Avenues for Further Inquiry: This essay highlights many promising research avenues, some of which cut across the book’s four chronological parts, and some of which are rooted more clearly in specific historical moments and places.
Bibliography: A full bibliography of the range of primary and secondary sources employed in Fraud.
A Brief Consideration of Primary Sources and Methods: In this essay, I reflect on my use of a variety of primary sources, as well as the analytical perspectives that I bring to them.
Fraud Lexica: A collection of fraud-related Americanisms taken from slang dictionaries.

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"Suckers & Swindlers" provides a range of online resources that complement my book, Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff.  A portion of the content represents material that sometimes appears within the covers of a scholarly book, such a full bibliography.  But I also have posted lots of other material – essays about sources and methods, the scholarship on American business fraud, and avenues for additional research; links to reviews/discussions of the book; and much else besides.  The site will eventually furnish a platform for the provision of primary sources, including an image gallery, along with other teaching materials. A long-term project such as this one benefits from collaborations and help along the way. Please click here to learn more about the team behind this site.

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