TY - BOOK AU - Chiusano,Mark TI - The fabulist: the lying, hustling, grifting, stealing, and very American legend of George Santos SN - 9781668043677 PY - 2023/// CY - New York PB - One Signal Publishers, Atria, an imprint of Simon and Schuster KW - Santos, George, KW - United States KW - Congress KW - House KW - Biography KW - Legislators KW - Swindlers and swindling KW - New York (N.Y.) KW - Biographies KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Author's note: talking to George Santos -- Introduction -- The scammer. Escape from the Tower of Babel ; Up from the basement ; Kitara at the bingo table ; Grift city ; And then came the dogs -- The candidate. Choosing politics ; The excellent messy awesomeness of 2020: or, how Santos got COVID and learned to stop the steal ; The coattail candidate ; The Producers, Part 2 ; The perfect-storm election ; Keep posting -- Epilogue N2 - A Newsday alum and PEN/Hemingway honoree tells the full story of U.S. Representative George Santos, a charlatan and con-artist who has embedded himself in our nation's capital ER -