Free Ebook Yellow Kid Weil and His Grift
The book Yellow Kid Weil will illustrate for you how the politicians and police are in on the grift. It also will teach you the basics of the short and long con game. The storied career of Yellow Kid Weil is an entertaining read and pretty obviously the basis of the movie "The Sting".
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Other related books on the same topic of confidence games
- Book: The Big Con PDF, epub
- 48 Laws of Power
- Art of the Con
- Project Gutenberg: The Confidence Man – By Herman Melville ( fiction but likely gleened from anecdotes )
Originally learned of the Yellow Kid from Jean Shepherd / Youtube.