num_pages: 303
description: In her book "Impostors", Sarah Burton looks at the cases of individuals who have pulled off some of the most extraordinary deceptions.Among them are Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance who was a glamorous film star, journalist, athlete, war hero, champion of native Americans who was actually Sylvester Long, a black man from the Deep South during the time of the Segregation Laws in the USA; well-known jazz musician, Billy Tipton, stepfather and scout-master who lived most of her life as a man. She married four women before her real identity was discovered when she died in 1989; and the most famous impostor of all, Ferdinand Demara, who posed variously as a surgeon, a university lecturer, a priest and a warden in a top security prison who was so good at his 'chosen' professions that, when unmasked, was often asked to return to the job.
language: English
title: Impostors: Six Kinds of Liar
titlecomplete: Impostors: Six Kinds of Liar
genres: History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 20
publisher: Viking Books