books.google.com - The practice of selling one's tale of woe to make a buck has long been a part of American culture. The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America is a powerful cultural history of how ordinary Americans crafted and sold their stories of hardship and calamity during the nineteenth...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Unvarnished_Truth.html?id=lzs49b05DCsC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Unvarnished Truth
