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The Man in the Rockefeller Suit
The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter
Book Summary
Traces the thirty-year con of Clark Rockefeller, a German-born immigrant who assumed numerous identities to charm his way into exclusive clubs and financial institutions before divorcing his Harvard-graduate wife and kidnapping his own daughter.
This book is about:
- Impostors and imposture,
- Gerheitsreiter, Christian,
- Case studies,
- United States
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