6735153The Great Impostorhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-great-impostor-9780374715885/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/310037/234a3bcd-737c-4619-9f15-ae7805f18e5d.jpg?v=638614345246200000206251MXNFarrar, Straus and GirouxInStock/Ebooks/The essential biography of the legendary con man who impersonated doctors, monks, and morethe basis for the classic film starring Tony Curtis.Ferdinand Waldo Demara wanted to be a hero. Instead, he became many. After enlisting in the military in 1941, he went AWOL and assumed the identity of an army buddy. He soon found that with his sharp wit and uncanny memory, he could reinvent himself endlessly, impersonating professionals in various fieldsand fooling the experts time and again.During his storied career, Demara became a Trappist monk; a doctor of psychology and Dean of the School of Philosophy at a small college in Pennsylvania; a law student, zoology graduate, cancer researcher and teacher at a junior college in Maine; a surgeon-lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy (as medical officer on the destroyed Cayuga, he successfully performed major surgery); a brilliant assistant warden of a Texas prison; and a beloved teacher on an island in Maine.In this forthright account of a remarkable fraud, Robert Crichton presents the man, his reasons, and his methods. A New York Times bestseller when it was originally published in 1959, and serving as the inspiration for the Tony Curtis film of the same name, this is the fascinating and disturbing story of Americas Great Impostor....1710616The Great Impostor206251https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-great-impostor-9780374715885/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/310037/234a3bcd-737c-4619-9f15-ae7805f18e5d.jpg?v=638614345246200000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20169780374715885_W3siaWQiOiI3ZGQzMzQ4NC00MzZiLTRlZmUtOTg3Zi0xZWQ0YjQ3NTU5NWYiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjI1MSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjQ1LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIwNiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDItMDZUMDM6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780374715885_In this forthright account of a remarkable fraud inFerdinand Waldo Demara, Robert Crichton presents the man, his reasons, and his methods. A New York Times bestseller when it was originally published in 1959, and serving as the inspiration for the Tony Curtis film of the same name, this is the fascinating and disturbing story of Americas Great Impostor.The fantastic lives and careers of Ferdinand Waldo Demara make a fantastic irony of the platitude that truth is stranger than fiction. For with Ferdinand Demara, truth is fiction.Demara wanted to be a hero, to lead an epic life dedicated to the benefit of others, and to gain adulation for himself, and he did all those things by lying to others about who he was. During his storied career, Ferdinand Demara managed to become a Trappist monk; a doctor of psychology and Dean of the School of Philosophy at a small college in Pennsylvania; a law student, zoology graduate, cancer researcher and teacher at a junior college in Maine; a surgeon-lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy (as medical officer on the destroyed Cayuga, he successfully performed major surgery); a brilliant assistant warden of a Texas prison; and a teacher and beloved idol of the children on a Maine island village....(*_*)9780374715885_The essential biography of the legendary con man who impersonated doctors, monks, and morethe basis for the classic film starring Tony Curtis.Ferdinand Waldo Demara wanted to be a hero. Instead, he became many. After enlisting in the military in 1941, he went AWOL and assumed the identity of an army buddy. He soon found that with his sharp wit and uncanny memory, he could reinvent himself endlessly, impersonating professionals in various fieldsand fooling the experts time and again.During his storied career, Demara became a Trappist monk; a doctor of psychology and Dean of the School of Philosophy at a small college in Pennsylvania; a law student, zoology graduate, cancer researcher and teacher at a junior college in Maine; a surgeon-lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy (as medical officer on the destroyed Cayuga, he successfully performed major surgery); a brilliant assistant warden of a Texas prison; and a beloved teacher on an island in Maine.In this forthright account of a remarkable fraud, Robert Crichton presents the man, his reasons, and his methods. A New York Times bestseller when it was originally published in 1959, and serving as the inspiration for the Tony Curtis film of the same name, this is the fascinating and disturbing story of Americas Great Impostor....9780374715885_Farrar, Straus and Giroux(*_*)9780374715885_Sarah Crichton Bookslibro_electonico_9780374715885_9780374715885Robert CrichtonInglésMéxico2024-09-04T00:00:00+00:00Sarah Crichton Bookshttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/openroadmedia-epub-b29cc68e-e959-42f5-ad33-36e9d7dfd696.epub