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 Sherman Library  QB581.9 .G66 2008    AVAILABLE  
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Author Goodman, Matthew.
Title The Sun and the moon : the remarkable true account of hoaxers, showmen, dueling journalists, and lunar man-bats in nineteenth-century New York / Matthew Goodman.
OCLC 176894745
ISBN 9780465002573 (alk. paper)
0465002579 (alk. paper)
Publisher New York : Basic Books, [2008]
©2008
Description ix, 350 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
LC Subject heading/s Day, Benjamin Henry, 1810-1889.
Locke, Richard Adams, 1800-1871.
Sun (New York, N.Y. : 1833)
Fraud in science -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Journalism -- Corrupt practices.
Moon -- Miscellanea.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-334) and index.
Contents 1: The sun -- Benjamin Day's whistling boy -- The news of the city -- Bearer of the Falcon Crest -- The atrocious impositions of Matthias -- "The evil spirit of the times" -- The prince of Ivy Island -- Strange attractions -- 2: The moon -- Celestial discoveries -- A passage to the moon -- "If this account is true, it is most enormously wonderful" -- The picturesque beauty of the moon -- "The astronomical hoax explained" -- Moonshine -- Monck Mason's flying machine -- "Joice Heth is not dead" -- The best self-hoaxed man in New York -- Epilogue: That tyranny shall be no longer.
Summary A study of a nineteenth-century journalistic hoax describes how a series of articles appearing in the "New York Sun" in 1835 purported to reveal lunar discoveries made by a noted British astronomer concerning life on the moon.
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