Journalists have created thousands of hoaxes just for the fun of it. Most of the hoaxes appeared during the 1800s. Fedler brings back some of the hoaxes perpetr

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction “There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely wa

Recounts the fake news stories, written from 1830 to 1880, about scientific and technological discoveries, and the effect these hoaxes had on readers and their

We live in the era of the digital revolution characterized by easy access to obtaining, processing and disseminating information on a global scale. The emergenc

This book explores the history, theory, practice, politics, and efficacy of hoaxing through an in-depth study of the Yes Men, one of the most important media ac