Richard Moreno

Broschiertes Buch

Frontier Fake News

Nevada's Sagebrush Humorists and Hoaxsters

Beschreibung

"Frontier Fake News: Nevada's Sagebrush Humorists and Hoaxsters explores some of the earliest perpetrators of Fake News. Legendary Nevada writers like Mark Twain, Dan De Quille, Sam Davis, and others were renowned for their clever and mischievous hoaxes, satires, puns, and other witticisms designed to entertain their readers while often making a political statement"--

Autor

Richard Moreno is the former publisher of Nevada Magazine and author of fourteen books, including Roadside History of Nevada, A Short History of Carson City, and A Short History of Reno. For more than three decades, he has written a weekly history/travel column that appears in the Lahontan Valley News and the Nevada Appeal. In 2007, Moreno was awarded the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame Silver Pen Award.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nevada Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9781647790868
• ISBN-10: 1647790867
• Artikelnr.: 66230206