Hustlers and Con Men: An Anecdotal History of the Confidence Man and His Games published by M.

The court added that Nash should not be surprised at the result, pointing out, 'His own books are largely fresh expositions of facts looked up in other people's books.' Selected bibliography

The court compared Nash's writing to 'speculative works representing themselves as fact' and concluded that he could not claim a copyright on his analysis of historical facts, only his expression of them. His claim of copyright infringement was dismissed on summary judgment, a ruling upheld by an appeals court.

Nash once filed a lawsuit against CBS for producing an episode of Simon & Simon with a plotline based around his notion that bank robber John Dillinger was not killed by the FBI in 1934 (Nash focused two separate books on his theory). In 2008, The Library of America selected Nash's story 'The Turner- Stompanato Affair' for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime. In the Journal of American History, Richard Maxwell Brown also noted the 'numerous errors, omissions, inconsistencies, and anomalies' in Nash's encyclopedias. Waters, writing for the Library Journal, called Nash's work 'fascinating yet flawed' and recommended that it be used only for background research, verifying the information based on the sources in Nash's bibliography. However, he has said that his books are 'seeded with information to detect any unauthorized use or duplication' the precise nature of these copyright traps may include incorrect information in otherwise factual entries, or wholly fictitious entries. Nash has won Best Reference citations from the American Library Association for four of his books, including Darkest Hours. Jay Robert Nash currently lives in Wilmette, Illinois and describes himself as an 'entrepreneurial businessman'. He has also compiled his exhaustive research of criminal behaviour into a CD-ROM entitled Jay Robert Nash's True Crime Database. Jay Robert Nash (born November 26, 1937, in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American author of more than 70 books on myriad aspects of true crime.Īmong Nash's crime anthologies are Encyclopedia of Western Lawmen and Outlaws, Look For the Woman, Bloodletters and Badmen, and The Great Pictorial History of World Crime. For the Australian footballer (born 1985), see Jay Nash.

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