Confidence Man
Confidence Man A scathing, razor-sharp satire set on a New Orleans-bound riverboat, The Confidence-Man exposes the fraudulent optimism of so many American idols and idealists--Ralph Waldo Emerson,…
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Confidence Man
A scathing, razor-sharp satire set on a New Orleans-bound riverboat, The Confidence-Man exposes the fraudulent optimism of so many American idols and idealists--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and P. T. And why is it doing Melville at all? Barnum, in particular--and draws a dark vision of a country being swallowed by its illusions of progress.Why is Dalkey Archive doing yet another edition of The Confidence-Man?
Bruce Franklin, intended for both the general reader and the scholar. First, this edition, originally published by Bobbs-Merrill over forty years ago, contains remarkable annotations by H. It's an edition we have long admired.
More importantly, we believe that The Confidence-Man is America's first postmodern novel--game-like, darkly comic, and completely