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Selected Reviews and Features


There Is Nothing New Under the Sun, Martin Shkreli Edition,” Interview by Joe Pinkser, The Atlantic Online, Aug. 7, 2017

Why Suckering Americans Is a Booming Business,” Zocalo Public Square, May 17, 2017 (reprinted in Lake Tahoe News, May 21, 2017 San Francisco Chronicle, June 2, 2017; Fresno Bee, June 6, 2017)

Is Fraud an American Tradition?” Interview by Randy Dotinga, Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 2, 2017

These Three Things Need to Happen to Crack Down on Fake News,” Marketwatch, Jan. 7, 2017

Edward Balleisen on the Long History of Fraud in America,” Princeton University Press Blog, Jan. 11, 2017

Eugene Soltes, Business History Review 91 (Summer, 2017): 394-96

Tyler Cowen, “Doing Their Business: On the Evolution of Poor Practice and Fraud,” Times Literary Supplement, Nov. 14, 2017

Richard Booth, Always with Us, Regulation 40 (Winter/Spring 2017-18): 40-44

 

David Friedrichs, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, May 2017

Katherine Epstein, “Deconstructing Fraud,” The American Interest, July 5, 2017 (review essay)

Brooke Harrington, “Why Americans Get Conned Again and Again,” Atlantic Monthly.com, July 31 2017

Carina Chocano, “From Wells Fargo to Fyre Festival,” New York Times Magazine, May 16, 2017

 

About this Website

"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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