Jumat, 09 Juni 2017

Grand Theft History

Brazen con artists lift priceless documents from archives and rob Americans of their past. During the past three decades, Barry Landau cultivated a reputation as the nation’s foremost presidential memorabilia collector. He attended state dinners for Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and boasted that he possessed more than a million historical documents …

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