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"PLAYAWAY. The Sun and the Moon tells the delightful and surprisingly true story of how, in the summer of 1835, a series of articles in the new "penny paper," the Sun, convinced the citizens of New York that the moon was inhabited. Purporting to reveal the discoveries of a famous British astronome- r, the series described such moon life as unicorns, beavers that walked upright, and four-foot-tall flying man-bats, and quickly became the most widely circulated newspaper story of the era. Told in richly novelistic detail, The Sun and the Moon brings the raucous world of 1830s New York City vividly to life, overflowing with larger-than-life characters such as Richard Adams Locke, author of the moon series, who never intended it to be a hoax at all; a fledgling showman named P.T. Barnum, who had just brought his own hoax to New York; and the young writer Edgar Allan Poe, who was convinced that the moon series was a plagiarism of his own work."
"In August 1835, New York Sun editor Richard Adams Locke wrote and published a hoax about a newfangled telescope that revealed fantastic images of the moon, including poppy fields, waterfalls and blue skies. Animals from unicorns to horned bears inhabited the moon, but most astonishing were the four-foot-tall "man-bats" who talked, built temples and fornicated in public. The sensational moon hoax was reprinted across America and Europe. Edgar Allan Poe grumbled that the tale had been cribbed from one of his short stories; Sun owner Benjamin Day saw his paper become the most widely read in the world; and a pre-eminent British astronomer complained that his good name had been linked to those "incoherent ravings." Goodman offers a richly detailed and engrossing glimpse of the birth of tabloid journalism in an antebellum New York divided by class, ethnicity and such polarizing issues as slavery, religion and intellectual freedom."@en
"Matthew Goodman offers a true story about a rumor that began in New York, during the summer of 1835. A local newspaper printed articles about mystical beings that lived on the moon. This spawned the beginning of tabloid journalism."@en
"The Sun and the Moon tells the delightful and surprisingly true story of how, in the summer of 1835, a series of articles in the new penny paper, The Sun, convinced the citizens of New York that the moon was inhabited. Purporting to reveal the discoveries of a famous British astronomer, the series described such moon life as unicorns, beavers that walked upright, and four-foot-tall flying man-bats, and quickly became the most widely circulated newspaper story of the era."@en

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"The Sun and the moon [the remarkable true account of hoaxers, showmen, dueling journalists, and lunar man-bats in nineteenth-century New York]"@en
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"The sun and the moon the remarkable true account of hoaxers, showmen, dueling journalists, and lunar man-bats in nineteenth-century New York"@en
"The Sun and the moon the remarkable true account of hoaxers, showmen, dueling journalists, and lunar man-bats in nineteenth-century New York"@en
"The sun and the moon the remarkable true account of hoaxers, showmen, dueling journalists and lunar man-bats in nineteenth-century New York"

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