American Counterfeits
Author | : George Pickering Burnham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Counterfeits and counterfeiting |
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Author | : George Pickering Burnham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Counterfeits and counterfeiting |
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Author | : George Pickering Burnham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Counterfeits and counterfeiting |
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Author | : George Pickering Burnham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1879 |
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Author | : George Pickering Burnham |
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Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Counterfeits and counterfeiting |
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Author | : Kirstin Chen |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2022-06-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0063119579 |
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “A con artist story, a pop-feminist caper, a fashionable romp . . . Counterfeit is an entertaining, luxurious read—but beneath its glitz and flash, it is also a shrewd deconstruction of the American dream and the myth of the model minority. . . . Chen is up to something innovative and subversive here." — Camille Perri, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Recommended by New York Times Book Review • Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • USA Today • Time • Cosmopolitan • Today show • Harper’s Bazaar • Vogue • Good Housekeeping • Parade • New York Post • Town & Country • GMA.com • Buzzfeed • Goodreads • Oprah Daily • Popsugar • Bustle • theSkimm • The Millions • and more! For fans of Hustlers and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, the story of two Asian American women who band together to grow a counterfeit handbag scheme into a global enterprise—an incisive and glittering blend of fashion, crime, and friendship from the author of Bury What We Cannot Take and Soy Sauce for Beginners. Money can’t buy happiness… but it can buy a decent fake. Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home—she’s built the perfect life. But beneath this façade, Ava’s world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn’t been used in years, and her toddler’s tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point. Enter Winnie Fang, Ava’s enigmatic college roommate from Mainland China, who abruptly dropped out under mysterious circumstances. Now, twenty years later, Winnie is looking to reconnect with her old friend. But the shy, awkward girl Ava once knew has been replaced with a confident woman of the world, dripping in luxury goods, including a coveted Birkin in classic orange. The secret to her success? Winnie has developed an ingenious counterfeit scheme that involves importing near-exact replicas of luxury handbags and now she needs someone with a U.S. passport to help manage her business—someone who’d never be suspected of wrongdoing, someone like Ava. But when their spectacular success is threatened and Winnie vanishes once again, Ava is left to face the consequences. Swift, surprising, and sharply comic, Counterfeit is a stylish and feminist caper with a strong point of view and an axe to grind. Peering behind the curtain of the upscale designer storefronts and the Chinese factories where luxury goods are produced, Kirstin Chen interrogates the myth of the model minority through two unforgettable women determined to demand more from life. "If you appreciate a good caper, you’ll want to pick up Kirstin Chen’s novel . . . Fast-paced and fun, with smart commentary on the cultural differences between Asia and America." — TIME “Propulsive and captivating . . . A provocative story of fashion, friendship, and fakes (in more ways than one).” — VOGUE
Author | : Kenneth Scott |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780812217315 |
Counterfeiting flourished in colonial America and Scott brings to life the many colorful figures who indulged in this nefarious practice.
Author | : Mary McAleer Balkun |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2006-01-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0817314970 |
Fakery, authenticity, and identity in American literature and culture at the turn of the 20th century Focusing on texts written between 1880 and 1930, Mary McAleer Balkun explores the concept of the “counterfeit,” both in terms of material goods and invented identities, and the ways that the acquisition of objects came to define individuals in American culture and literature. Counterfeiting is, in one sense, about the creation of something that appears authentic—an invented self, a museum display, a forged work of art. But the counterfeit can also be a means by which the authentic is measured, thereby creating our conception of the true or real. When counterfeiting is applied to individual identities, it fosters fluidity in social boundaries and the games of social climbing and passing that have come to be representative of American culture: the Horatio Alger story, the con man or huckster, the social climber, the ethnically ambiguous. Balkun provides new readings of traditional texts such as The Great Gatsby, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The House of Mirth, as well as readings of less-studied texts, such as Walt Whitman’s Specimen Days and Nella Larsen’s Passing. In each of these texts, Balkun locates the presence of manufactured identities and counterfeit figures, demonstrating that where authenticity and consumerism intersect, the self becomes but another commodity to be promoted, sold, and eventually consumed.
Author | : Ben Tarnoff |
Publisher | : Penguin Press HC |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 9781594202872 |
Chronicles the lives of three colorful counterfeiters whose schemes reflected the culture of early America, describing their backgrounds and how they exploited period politics, economics and law enforcement to promote their operations.
Author | : George Pickering Burnham |
Publisher | : Sagwan Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2018-02-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781377010731 |
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Author | : John M. Kleeberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : |
A collection of seven papers, plus two further papers forming the appendices, from the Fourteenth Coinage of the Americas Conference held in 1998. The contributors focus on counterfeits, a relatively neglected field of study in numismatics, in the 18th and 19th centuries.