Safeguarding history : trailblazing adventures inside the worlds of collecting and forging history

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Kenneth Rendell's unconventional methods uncovered Adolf Hitler's forged diaries and evaluated Nixon's Watergate tapes. It is more than an Indiana Jones adventure; it is the story of the real person behind it all. Kenneth Rendell has traveled the world, tracking down, buying, and selling the most significant, iconic historical letters and documents from the Renaissance to the present day. Safeguarding History chronicles his adventures collecting...

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Rendell, Kenneth W

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ISBN:

9780794850494

Description:

xiv, 314 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes index

Contents:

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Entering the world of historical documents: the 1960s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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3298218

Other Authors:

Goodwin, Doris Kearns, author of foreword

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