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title: "The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man"
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# The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man

**Brand:** david maurerluc sante
**Price:** A$40
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- **What is this?** The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man by david maurerluc sante
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Big Con | a perfect guide for the casual enthusiast
*by P***S on August 3, 2016*

pooled ink Reviews:4.5 Stars“Of all the grifters, the confidence man is the aristocrat.”THE BIG CON is a casual narrative that eases you into the world of the modern (1940s) confidence man as its pages offer you true third party insight with the occasional tale or anecdote from those who actively play the game. Educational, amusing, informative, and a remarkably quick read this book provides all that is needed for the casual enthusiast.Non-fiction is pretty hit-or-miss for me but the narrative that spun this research together drew me in immediately. It felt so conversational I became eager to hear him out and learn what was being offered. And what Maurer was offering was a base of history, a trove of secrets, and a smile of stories straight from the horse’s mouth.Read my FULL review here: [...]

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good read
*by D***J on June 13, 2017*

This is the book that the writer of the movie, TheSting, based their script elements on., It is a great compendium of early 1900's con slang and the working of the big three cons of the day. This is a non-fiction book written by a professor and it reads that way at times. It gets redundant at times, but a good treatise on the art of the con, written with some affection to the griffters. While nonfiction, it is clear that Maurer lost most of his objectivity while working on this, so the book comes off a bit romanticizes and nostalgic. Good scholarship? Probably not. Good read? Absolutely!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I hear the music of "The Sting" in my head when reading
*by T***Q on September 14, 2022*

I am not generally a reader of factual books. I prefer Fantasy, Sci-Fi, etc. I am, however, a HUGE fan of The Sting movie. It's for that reason that I gave this book a purchase.This is a fantastic read. I know it was the basis for the Newman/Redford classic "The Sting", and I can hear the music soundtrack in my head as a I read.This is not a story, it's the author's account as he delved into the depths of the grift in the 1940s. It's a slice of Americana that seems to have been forgotten and well worth a read and a gift to a friend.What I particularly loved the most about this book was reading about the history of the con and how it evolved over time. I also enjoyed understanding the different roles each person had and how it fit into the overall tale being told to the mark.

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