num_pages: 275
description: Duke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubman—a product of Yale and the OSS, a one-time fighter pilot turned aviation engineer. Duke Wolff was a failure who flunked out of a series of undistinguished schools, was passed up for military service, and supported himself with desperately improvised scams, exploiting employers, wives, and, finally, his own son.In The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff unravels the enigma of this Gatsbyesque figure, a bad man who somehow was also a very good father, an inveterate liar who falsified everything but love.
language: English
title: The Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father
titlecomplete: The Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father
genres: Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Family, Read For School, Biography, School, Literature, Memoir, American, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1249
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography
publisher: Vintage