The expert who unmasked a Hitler forgery and appraised Nixon’s papers
Safeguarding History is a fun read about the life of a history expert who hobnobs with the rich and famous.
Kenneth W. Rendell’s Safeguarding History: Trailblazing Adventures Inside the Worlds of Collecting and Forging History straddles several genres: while mainly a chatty, easygoing autobiography, it’s also a business history, a family memoir and a highly anecdotal introduction to an arcane field. Above all, though, it’s what we in the reviewing trade call “a fun read”.
Kenneth Rendell is the leading American dealer in historical documents, an expert on the detection of forgery and a friend to distinguished people in many fields. Getty
Washington Post
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