The Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father

About this book

Duke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubman -- a product of Yale and the OSS, a one-time fighter pilot turned aviation engineer. Duke Wolff was a failure who flunked out of a series of undistinguished schools, was passed up for military service, and supported himself with desperately improvised scams, exploiting employers, wives, and, finally, his own son.In The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff unravels the enigma of this Gatsbyesque figure, a bad man who somehow was also a very good father, an inveterate liar who falsified everything but love.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780679727521

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

February 19, 1990

Pages

304

Weight

10.1 oz

Subject

Biography & Autobiography