The man in the Rockefeller suit : the astonishing rise and spectacular fall of a serial impostor
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New York : Plume, [2012].
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9780452298033, 0452298032
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Published
New York : Plume, [2012].
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Book
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xiv, 345 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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9780452298033, 0452298032

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"With new material ..."--Cover.
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Traces the thirty-year con of Clark Rockefeller, a German-born immigrant who assumed numerous identities to charm his way into exclusive clubs and financial institutions before divorcing his Harvard-graduate wife and kidnapping his own daughter.
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The unbelievable thirty-year run of a shape-shifting con man. Clark Rockefeller's story is a strange twist on the classic American success story of the self-made man--because Clark Rockefeller was totally made up. Born in a small village in Germany, Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter was obsessed with getting to America. At seventeen, he flew into the country on dubious student visa documents. Over the next thirty years, boldly assuming a series of false identities, he moved up the social ladder across the country--culminating in a twelve-year marriage to a Harvard MBA who believed she'd wed a Rockefeller. The imposter charmed his way into exclusive clubs and financial institutions--working on Wall Street, showing off an extraordinary art collection--until his marriage ended and he was arrested for kidnapping his daughter, which exposed his past of astounding deceptions as well as a chilling connection to the bizarre mid-1980s disappearance of a California couple.--From publisher description.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Seal, M. (2012). The man in the Rockefeller suit: the astonishing rise and spectacular fall of a serial impostor . Plume.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Seal, Mark, 1953-. 2012. The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor. Plume.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Seal, Mark, 1953-. The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor Plume, 2012.

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Seal, Mark. The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor Plume, 2012.

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