The Man in the Rockefeller Suit The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor
by Seal, MarkFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-04-25
Publisher(s): Plume
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Summary
The story of Clark Rockefeller is a stranger-than-fiction twist on the classic American success story. "The Man in the Rockefeller Suit" is a probing and cinematic exploration of an audacious imposter--and a man determined to live the American dream by any means necessary.
Author Biography
Mark Seal is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where his piece on Gerhartsreiter was a finalist for a 2010 National Magazine Award. He is also the author of Wildflower. He lives in Aspen, Colorado.
Table of Contents
| Author's Note | p. xi |
| Foreword | p. xiii |
| Prologue | p. 1 |
| Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter: Bergen, Germany | p. 15 |
| Strangers on a Train | p. 30 |
| Becoming American | p. 43 |
| Christopher Chichester: San Marino, California | p. 52 |
| The Secret Mission | p. 81 |
| Christopher Crowe: Greenwich, Connecticut | p. 95 |
| Wall Street | p. 111 |
| Missing Persons | p. 122 |
| Clark Rockefeller: New York, New York | p. 133 |
| Sandra | p. 152 |
| "San Marino Bones" | p. 167 |
| The Last Will and Testament of Didi Sohus | p. 178 |
| The Country Squire | p. 202 |
| Snooks | p. 211 |
| The God of War | p. 221 |
| The Boston Brahmin | p. 236 |
| Peach Melba Nights | p. 250 |
| "Find Out Who He Is" | p. 263 |
| Chip Smith: Baltimore, Maryland | p. 277 |
| The Manhunt | p. 296 |
| One Last Con? | p. 309 |
| Afterword | p. 321 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 343 |
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Excerpts
When the fingerprints came back from the lab, one thing was finally clear: the kidnapper was definitely not a Rockefeller. He was Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a forty-seven-year-old German immigrant who had come to America as a student in 1978. Shortly after his arrival, he disappeared into what the Boston district attorney would call “the longest con I've seen in my professional career.” The elaborate, labyrinthine nature of Gerhartsreiter's shapeshifting adventures, from the time he set foot in this country as a seventeen-year-old student right up to his disappearance, makes his story more bizarre than any gifted writer of fiction could possibly invent.
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