HERO IN DISGRACE: THE TRUE DISCOVERER OF THE NORTH POLE, FREDERICK A. COOK Howard Abramson 1991 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine (Abramson, Howard S.)

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New York, Paragon 1991, 1st edition, 1st printing. 250 pp, b/w photos. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fine condition. Foreword by Warren Cook, Sr. An account of the first man to reach the North Pole - the man who was cheated out of glory and fame at the North Pole - finally setting the record straight. Actually this book does not prove its case. Cook most probably did not reach either the North Pole or Mt McKinley's summit. However, what was not commonly jnown at the time, and is not even today, is that Peary did not reach the North Pole either. And Peary played a very nasty game versus Cook, using what were later termed "dirty tricks." Peary had a team of dirty tricksters who traveled ahead of Cook as he made his presentations, telling the newspapers that Cook was coming soon but he was a fraud. Another two little known facts about Cook. He went to jail for selling stock in what was termed a fraud involving stock in oil wells. He got out of jail early because he was pardoned by Franklin Roosevelt. Not only that, the oil wells started pumping oil! There was no fraud after all.
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