Safeguarding history
trailblazing adventures inside the worlds of collecting and forging history
Book - 2023
Safeguarding Trailblazing Adventures Inside the Worlds of Collecting and Forging History, with foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin, is the eloquent, captivating, moving, and complex story of the world’s most prominent dealer in historical documents, letters, manuscripts, and artifacts. Kenneth Rendell has traveled the world, tracking down, buying, and selling the most significant, iconic historical letters and documents from the Renaissance to the present day. Safeguarding History chronicles his adventures.
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Pelham AL :
Whitman Publishing, LLC,
[2023]
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| 300 | |a xiv, 314 pages : |b illustrations (some color) ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Dedications -- |t Foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin -- |t Preface -- |t Introduction: thinking out of the box and other ideas -- |t The drugstore -- |t Rare coins |r (1950s) -- |t The Caribbean coin hunt: the craziest adventure -- |t Family disaster -- |t Entering the world of historical documents: the 1960s -- |t The 1970s: the international decade -- |t Branching into the ancient world -- |t The Hitler diaries hoax -- |t Exploding onto the public stage -- |t Selling Ronald Reagan's papers -- |t The Mormon forgeries and murders -- |t Developing new collectors -- |t The Jack the Ripper diary hoax -- |t Appraising Richard Nixon's White House papers and Watergate tapes -- |t Bill Gates and the quintessential library project -- |t Surviving the ultimate disaster: the death of our son -- |t Is nothing sacred? Forging Elvis Presley manuscripts -- |t Pricing the priceless: appraising major archives -- |t the 2000s -- |t The billion-dollar French manuscript scandal -- |t Forming the world's most comprehensive World War II collection and museum -- |t The western pursuit of my American dream -- |t Balancing life -- |t What I am proud of -- |t Acknowledgements and image credits -- |t Index. |
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