Description: Bluffing Texas Style : The Arsons, Forgeries, and High-Stakes Poker Capers of Rar Dealer Johnny Jenkins, Paperback by Vinson, Michael, ISBN 0806165421, ISBN-13 9780806165424, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In 1989 a woman fishing in Texas on a quiet stretch of the Colorado River snagged a body. Her 'catch' was the corpse of Johnny Jenkins, shot in the head. His death was as dramatic as the rar dealer's life, which read, as the Austin American-Statesman declared, 'like a bestseller." In 1975 Jenkins had staged the largest rar coup of the twentieth century'the purchase, for more than two million dollars, of the legendary Eberstadt inventory of rare Americana, a feat noted in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. His undercover work for the FBI, recovering rars stolen by mafia figures, had also earned him headlines coast to coast, as had his exploits as 'Austin Squatty," playing high stakes poker in Las Vegas. But beneath such public triumphs lay darker secrets. At the time of his death, Jenkins was about to be indicted by the ATF for the arson of his rars, warehouse, and offices. Another investigation implicated Jenkins in forgeries of historical documents, including the Texas Declaration of Independence. Rumors of million-dollar gambling debts at mob-connected casinos circulated, along with the rumblings of irate mafia figures he'd fingered and eccentric Texas collectors he'd cheated. Had he been murdered? Or was his death a suicide, staged to look like a murder? How Jenkins, a onetime president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, came to such an unseemly end is one of the mysteries Michael Vinson pursues in this spirited account of a tragic American life. Entrepreneur, con man, connoisseur, forger, and self-made hero, Jenkins was a Texan who knew how to bluff but not when to fold.
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Book Title: Bluffing Texas Style : The Arsons, Forgeries, and High-Stakes Pok
Number of Pages: 250 Pages
Publication Name: Bluffing Texas Style : The Arsons, Forgeries, and High-Stakes Poker Capers of Rare Book Dealer Johnny Jenkins
Language: English
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Subject: Communication Studies, United States / 20th Century, Books, Business
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 0.6 in
Features: New Edition
Item Weight: 11.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Michael Vinson
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines, Antiques & Collectibles, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
