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... example of this type of huckster ) . Bergmann's dissertation is an exhaustive treatment of confidence men and their prototypes operating in America prior to the publication of The Confidence - Man and offers a multitude of possible ...
... example of this type of huckster ) . Bergmann's dissertation is an exhaustive treatment of confidence men and their prototypes operating in America prior to the publication of The Confidence - Man and offers a multitude of possible ...
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... example , in his " Sources and Symbols for Melville's Confidence - Man , " confesses that he has no " explanation as to why Noble and Goodman , if both are from the pit , should unknown to one another carry on their long conversation ...
... example , in his " Sources and Symbols for Melville's Confidence - Man , " confesses that he has no " explanation as to why Noble and Goodman , if both are from the pit , should unknown to one another carry on their long conversation ...
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... example , do not believe that the mute is actually the confidence man ( " Introduction , " The Confidence - Man [ New York : Hendricks House , 1954 ] , p . liii ) ; and , more recently , Elizabeth Keysor has argued , in " ' Quite an ...
... example , do not believe that the mute is actually the confidence man ( " Introduction , " The Confidence - Man [ New York : Hendricks House , 1954 ] , p . liii ) ; and , more recently , Elizabeth Keysor has argued , in " ' Quite an ...
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