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on1390820975 |
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OCoLC |
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20240115152605.0 |
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1260190669 |
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1352489200 |
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1390798948 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1635574730 |
| Qualifying information |
(hardcover) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781635574739 |
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(hardcover) |
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(OCoLC)1390820975 |
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(OCoLC)1260190669 |
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(OCoLC)1352489200 |
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(OCoLC)1390798948 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
JCX |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
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JCX |
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HQD |
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YDX |
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BDX |
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JAS |
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JED |
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IH9 |
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IMT |
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UOK |
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MiTN |
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f-gh--- |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
HV6699 .G5 |
| Item number |
Y44 2023 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
364.16/3 |
| Edition number |
23/eng/20230731 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
364.163 B6142Y 2023 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Yeebo, Yepoka |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Anansi's gold : |
| Remainder of title |
the man who looted the west, outfoxed Washington, and swindled the world / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Yepoka Yeebo. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Bloomsbury Publishing, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2023. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
©2023 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiii, 378 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations (some color) ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
still image |
| Content type code |
sti |
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rdacontent |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-310, 313-354) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Our man -- Kerosene boy -- Legends and lies -- One big cocktail party -- Crooks and heroes -- Three hotels -- The crew -- The longest con -- Girard Bank -- Multi, multi, multi -- Hubris -- Silk -- President Blay-Miezah -- House of cards -- Deal with the devil -- Our man in London -- Glory and folly -- Showboys all the way -- Fool's gold -- American grifter -- Soon parted -- The throne and the chain -- The ultimate con man -- Anansi's last tale -- Epilogue: The rest is history. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"When Ghana won its independence from Britain in 1957, it instantly became a target for home-grown opportunists and rapacious Western interests determined to snatch any assets that colonialism hadn't already stripped. A CIA-funded military junta ousted the new nation's inspiring president, Kwame Nkrumah, then falsely accused him of hiding the country's gold overseas. Into this big lie stepped one of history's most charismatic scammers, a con man to rival the trickster god Anansi. Born into poverty in Ghana and trained in the United States, John Ackah Blay-Miezah declared himself custodian of an alleged Nkrumah trust fund worth billions. You, too, could claim a piece--if only you would "invest" in Blay-Miezah's fictitious efforts to release the equally fictitious fund. Over the 1970s and '80s, he and his accomplices--including Ghanaian state officials and Nixon's former attorney general--scammed hundreds of millions of dollars out of thousands of believers. Blay-Miezah lived in luxury, deceiving Philadelphia lawyers, London financiers, and Seoul businessmen alike, all while eluding his FBI pursuers. American prosecutors called his scam 'one of the most fascinating--and lucrative--in modern history.' In Anansi's Gold, Yepoka Yeebo chases Blay-Miezah's ever-wilder trail and discovers, at long last, what really happened to Ghana's missing wealth. She unfolds a riveting account of Cold War entanglements, international finance, and postcolonial betrayal, revealing how what we call "history" writes itself into being, one lie at a time"-- |
| Assigning source |
Provided by publisher. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Blay-Miezah, John Ackah, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1941-1992 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Fraud |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Swindlers and swindling |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Ghana |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Biographies |
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lcgft |