Conning Harvard: Adam Wheeler, the Con Artist Who Faked His Way into the Ivy League
by:
Julie Zauzmer (author)
Xi Yu (author)
Conning Harvard tells the story of Adam Wheeler’s lie-filled path into Harvard, his compulsive conning of grant and scholarship boards after enrolling, and the eventual discovery of his fraudulent past.
Conning Harvard tells the story of Adam Wheeler’s lie-filled path into Harvard, his compulsive conning of grant and scholarship boards after enrolling, and the eventual discovery of his fraudulent past.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780762780020 (0762780029)
Publish date: September 18th 2012
Publisher: Lyons Press
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
For me, this kind of book is a guilty pleasure. I love stories about frauds and con artists. Usually I root for them, but it was hard to like the fraudster in this book because he lied and plagiarized not just to get into Harvard, Bowdoin, and Stanford, but also to be a straight A student and win to...