Safeguarding History : : Trailblazing Adventures Inside the Worlds of Collecting and Forging History

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Call Number: 921 Rendell, Kenneth W.
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 1st Floor, NEW Winter 4-week checkout	921 Rendell, Kenneth W.	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Includes index.
Dedications -- Foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin -- Preface -- Introduction: thinking out of the box and other ideas -- The drugstore -- Rare coins (1950s) -- The Caribbean coin hunt: the craziest adventure -- Family disaster -- Entering the world of historical documents: the 1960s -- The 1970s: the international decade -- Branching into the ancient world -- The Hitler diaries hoax -- Exploding onto the public stage -- Selling Ronald Reagan's papers -- The Mormon forgeries and murders -- Developing new collectors -- The Jack the Ripper diary hoax -- Appraising Richard Nixon's White House papers and Watergate tapes -- Bill Gates and the quintessential library project -- Surviving the ultimate disaster: the death of our son -- Is nothing sacred? Forging Elvis Presley manuscripts -- Pricing the priceless: appraising major archives -- the 2000s -- The billion-dollar French manuscript scandal -- Forming the world's most comprehensive World War II collection and museum -- The western pursuit of my American dream -- Balancing life -- What I am proud of -- Acknowledgements and image credits -- Index.

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