Jefferson Mays
1) The apparitionists: a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
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A story of faith and fraud in post-Civil War America told through the lens of a photographer who claimed he could capture images of the dead. -- from WorldCat
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"The definitive account of the bizarre hostage drama that gave rise to the term "Stockholm Syndrome." On the morning of August 23, 1973, a man wearing a wig, makeup, and a pair of sunglasses walked into the main branch of Sveriges Kreditbank, a prominent bank in central Stockholm. He ripped out a submachine gun, fired it into the ceiling, and shouted, "The party starts!" This was the beginning of a six-day hostage crisis--and media circus--that would...