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Can I See Your I.D.?: True Stories Of False Identities: True Stories Of False Identities (2011)

by Chris Barton(Favorite Author)

3.38 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0803733100 (ISBN13: 9780803733107)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Dial

review 1: I really like this book.This book is about people that created a false identity, and pretending to be someone else, there were 10 different stories and out of them only two were caught and spend time in prison. The thing I liked most about this story is how the author finishes the chapter with a question or with an unfinished story, and retrieves it by making a page about what happened next to the character.
review 2: Fascinating true stories of people who donned false identities--in some cases, for reasons of social justice, such as the light-skinned slave who passed as a white Southern gentleman to take her slave (actually her husband) up north or the Polish Jew who escaped the Nazi firing squad by becoming a Hitler Youth, and in other cases, just because the... morey could, such as Princess Caraboo, a British woman who pretended to be a princess from another country who had been kidnapped, or a teenager obsessed with trains who got away with actually running a New York subway train. All told in second person, so it's almost as if you assume these identities. Intriguing, immensely interesting. less

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