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Yellow Kid Weil: Autobiography of the greatest con man in American history
Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil may have been the greatest American swindler of all time. The Yellow Kid operated in the gold age of the American con, from the late 19th century up to WWII, and became a legend in his own time, immortalized in such books as The Big Con (the sociological study of con [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/cQKw5oF7G_E/yellow-kid-weil-autobiography.html
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